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Siegfried Goebel sets out to define and explore the limits of parable in the Gospels. Arranging the parables by their content and meaning, he brings the reader to understand either their figurative narrative or their concrete, literal command. He treats each parable individually and demonstrates the qualities that prove each parable fall into one of his two categories: “figurative” or “typical”...

to Winer, the hosts also in such caravanserais were undoubtedly Gentiles.1 This being so, all ground is removed for any reference to the supposed Jewish nationality of the host, and his presumed heartlessness to a Jewish fellow-countryman.2 Such reflection is also without support in the text of the narrative, in which the host, like the robbers, comes into notice only in the exercise of his business, and is a thoroughly subordinate figure. Therefore, without any reference to the host first named
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