Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels (Biblia.com)

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The Social-Science Commentary series presents a pioneering alternative commentary genre that offers a contextual approach to the study of the New Testament, thoroughly grounded in the original audience’s first-century cultural setting. In this commentary on the Synoptic Gospels, the authors build on their earlier social-scientific work and enhance the highly successful commentary model they...

15:11–15: By asking for his inheritance, as well as by exercising the right of disposing of it while his father was alive, the younger son has made a sharp break with his father, his brother, and the community in which they lived. In effect, the younger son has signaled that he wishes his father dead. The father, in turn, foolishly acquiesces in the request. As the Babylonian Talmud comments: Our Rabbis taught: three cry out and are not answered: he who has money and

Pages 290–291

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