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Forbes 1999 — Luke 15 interpretive questions

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Release Introduced: v53
Work Date: 1999
Work Kind: journal article
Authority Boundary: This work is an attribution/history entity. Its existence or age does not establish the correctness of its interpretation.
Evidence Classification: bibliographic / attribution metadata
Status: CURATED_PUBLIC

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Interpreter Authored WorkGreg W. Forbesdocumented attribution Work Associated With TraditionExegetical / literary surveyclassification metadata Work Documents Interpretive DisputeLuke 15:17–21 — how certain is the younger son’s repentance motive?documented scholarly dispute

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Greg W. Forbes — Repentance and Conflict in the Parable of the Lost Son (Luke 15:11–32)Copyrighted journal article; linked/cited, no local article-text redistribution asserted · AI/RAG: NOT_EVALUATED_CITATION_ONLY

Documents major interpretive disputes in Luke 15:11–32, including repentance and the elder son’s relation to the Jewish religious leaders; also explicitly notes the unresolved ending.

Citations

Greg W. Forbes, “Repentance and Conflict in the Parable of the Lost Son (Luke 15:11–32),” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 42.2 (1999): 211–229.