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Colin McGinn, Ethics, Evil and Fiction, Oxford, Oxford University-Press, 1997, pp. viii + 186.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2009

Titimothy Chappell
Affiliation:
University of Dundee

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1 It contains both, incidentally, from beginning to end. Jesus issues commands as well as parables (e.g. Matthew 5.44), and prophets like Nathan and Abraham too had parables up their sleeve. Nathan tells one to King David about David's seduction of Bathsheba (2 Samuel 12), and Abraham tells Yahweh a sort of parable in an (unsuccessful) attempt to get him to spare Sodom (Genesis 18).