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This inaugural volume in the Bible in Its World series offers a comprehensive commentary on the parables of Jesus. Arland Hultgren’s outstanding work features fresh translations of the parables in the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of Thomas, followed by interpretive notes and commentary on the theological meaning and significance of each parable for readers today. After an introductory chapter...

The English word “parable” is a loanword from the Greek word parabolē (παραβολή in Greek lettering), and like its Greek antecedent its basic and primary meaning is a “comparison.”1 By means of parables Jesus—and others before and after him—carried on instruction by making comparisons between eternal, transcendental realities and that which was familiar to the common human experience of his day. The parables of Jesus appear in the Synoptic Gospels
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