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Title: Ez 17,1-10 como enigma y parábla
Author(s): SIMIAN-YOFRE, Horacio
Journal: Biblica
Volume: 65    Issue: 1   Date: 1984   
Pages: 27-43
DOI: 10.2143/BIB.65.1.3218046

Abstract :
Ez 17,1-10 is usually considered by exegetes to be an allegory, whose meaning is to be understood from vv. 12ff. After indicating the difficulties of such interpretation, this paper attempts to show that Ez 17,1-10 is truly a parable, similar to those found in the NT; that as such it presents a meaning in itself, but always open to new interpretations; and that the interpretations proposed by Ez 17,11-12 and 17,22-24 are only two applications to concrete situations which do not exhaust the meaning of the parable.

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