Summary of Amy-Jill Levine's Short Stories by Jesus

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#1 The younger son went off and spent all his inheritance. Then a famine occurred, and he was forced to find a job to support himself. When he returned home, he found his father had sacrificed the grain-fed calf because his son was dead, but he had come back to life.

#2 The parable of the Prodigal Son is about a sinner repenting and God forgiving him, which is what many of Luke’s readers believed it to be. But the original meaning of the parable was not about sinners repenting and God forgiving them, but about finding the lost and reclaiming children.

#3 The parable of the Prodigal Son is often used to convey the message of wasted resources, but it can also be understood as the story of the Beloved Son, who left the paradise of his heavenly father to go and live in the world of sin.

#4 The allegorical connection between the parable and Christianity is that the father is God the Father, and the elder brother is Jesus, the prodigal who repents of his sin and is welcomed back by the gracious God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822543621

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The younger son went off and spent all his inheritance. Then a famine occurred, and he was forced to find a job to support himself. When he returned home, he found his father had sacrificed the grain-fed calf because his son was dead, but he had come back to life.

#2

The parable of the Prodigal Son is about a sinner repenting and God forgiving him, which is what many of Luke’s readers believed it to be. But the original meaning of the parable was not about sinners repenting and God forgiving them, but about finding the lost and reclaiming children.

#3

The parable of the Prodigal Son is often used to convey the message of wasted resources, but it can also be understood as the story of the Beloved Son, who left the paradise of his heavenly father to go and live in the world of sin.

#4

The allegorical connection between the parable and Christianity is that the father is God the Father, and the elder brother is Jesus, the prodigal who repents of his sin and is welcomed back by the gracious God.

#5

The Lost Sheep parable is about the church’s responsibility to care for its members, while the other two are about repenting and forgiving. They are designed to show the different concerns of two groups of people: those with whom the Gospel readers are to identify, and those whom the readers are to reject.

#6

The term sinner is often used to describe those who have broken the Law, but the Law is not understood in terms of earning your way into heaven, legalism, or works-righteousness. The term outcast is also used in reference to Jesus’s Jewish context, and dualistic models are in place.

#7

The parables of Jesus were originally meant to be taken as instructions for church leaders, but were later interpreted as metaphors about the Pharisees and sinners.

#8

The sheep in the parable is the believer who has strayed from the flock. The one who leaves the ninety-nine sheep to find one sheep will have only one sheep at the end of the day. Sheep are not the brightest animals.

#9

The owner in the parable of the lost sheep is God, and he is immensely