Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: a literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke

Kenneth Bailey, Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.

• Kenneth Bailey, Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.

The Request – Lk. 15:11-12

• The Request – Lk. 15:11-12

• The Father's Gift – Luke 15:12

• The Hurried Sale – 15:13 The Qetsatsah Ceremony

• Expensive Living – 15:13

• The Pig Herder – 15:14-15

• The Prodigal Repents – 15:17-19

• The Father’s Grace – 15:20

• The Son’s Confession – 15:21

• The Banquet – 15:22-30

1. Father’s reason – “because my son was dead and is alive again” – 23-24

• 1. Father’s reason – “because my son was dead and is alive again” – 23-24

• 2. Little boy’s reason – “because he has received him back safe and sound” shalom - v. 27
• 3. The Older Brother’s reason “that I might make merry” – v. 29

The Older Son’s Anger – 15:28-30

• The Older Son’s Anger – 15:28-30

• The Father’s Response – 15:31-32