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In this introductory text, Craig Blomberg surveys and evaluates contemporary critical approaches to the parables, challenging the prevailing consensus and making his own important new contribution to parable studies. Within proper definitions and limits, he argues, the parables are in fact best seen as allegories. The classic works of C. H. Dodd and Joachim Jeremias set the direction for nearly...

More puzzling still is the inability of these rules to account readily for the enigmatic comments attributed to Jesus in Mark 4:11–12 pars., in which he explains to his disciples his purpose for teaching in parables: “the secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’ ” Understandably, these words
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