By Karl Heinrich Rengstorf
ISBN-10: 366300306X
ISBN-13: 9783663003069
ISBN-10: 3663022196
ISBN-13: 9783663022190
Jesus' famous parable of the Prodigal Son as advised within the Lukan gospel (Luke 15, eleven ff. ) is something yet an allegory. It offers an method of a 'true-life tale' with a variety of allusions to existence within the oriental atmosphere of the author which, despite the fact that, have been hired via him to serve a non secular realizing he thought of crucial. the revealing of those allusions to existence and their . significance for revealing the worry of Jesus has been the main fashionable objective of this lecture. The history of the tale is a felony customized which used to be identified and practised in Palestine on the time of Jesus yet was once deserted throughout the first 3rd of the 2d century, on the most modern, or very likely already in reference to the unsuccessful rebellion of the Jews opposed to the Romans within the years 60-70 A. D. this is often the so-called e atah or e lfah, i. e. 'cutting-off' or 'separation'. this practice consisted of the subsequent: somebody - in accordance with Jewish legislations continuously a legally able guy - who had gotten himself into incurable clash with the pursuits of his tribe used to be 'cut-off' in public, with the end result that the previously present own and fabric relation-ships have been terminated and a thorough own isolation took its position resulting in a really seen swap within the prestige of the individual involved. every little thing we all know of this felony customized suits the framework of the tale of the Prodigal Son.
