In Israel, parables were uttered by prophets and wise women and men. They appear even in the oldest books of the Old Testament. Parables were often used by Jewish rabbis who were contemporaries of ...

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus finishes a long series of parables by asking his disciples ... Christians have struggled with the Old Testament (OT). Some outright reject the OT.

No. But as parable is it true ... Argue that archetypes from the Old Testament — for example, Jesus as the new Moses and new David — rather than divine inspiration and fact informed Matthew.