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In the last century, more studies of the parables were produced than for any other section of comparable length in the Bible. The problem is that most Bible readers are unlikely ever to know of most of them. In this substantially new and expanded edition, Craig Blomberg surveys and evaluates contemporary critical approaches to the parables, challenging the prevailing consensus and making his own...

his original audience, for example, could ever have been expected to associate the Samaritan’s innkeeper with the apostle Paul! 2. The allegorical method ignores the realism, clarity and simplicity of the parables. The scholar, at the turn of this century, who almost singlehandedly demolished the allegorical interpretation of the parables was the German liberal Adolf Jülicher. His two large volumes argued at great length that each parable briefly and concisely reflected true-to-life conditions of
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