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Jacob and the Prodigal: How Jesus Retold Israel’s Story is unavailable, but you can change that!

Israel, the community to which Jesus belonged, took its name from their patriarch Jacob. His story of exile and return was their story as well. In the well-known tale of the prodigal son, Jesus reshaped the story in his own way and for his own purposes. In this work, Kenneth E. Bailey compares the Old Testament saga and the New Testament parable. He unpacks similarities freighted with...

14. The father’s response. For a fourth time the father breaks the accepted code of behavior for an Oriental patriarch, and for the second time in the same day he is willing to offer a costly demonstration of unexpected love. Only now it is offered to a law-keeper rather than a law-breaker. Amazing grace holds true for both sons. Culturally, the father is expected to proceed with the banquet and ignore the public insult. He can deal with the older son later. But no! In painful public humiliation
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