Tag: parallelism

Household: Lost Sheep, Luke 15:4-7 (Part 2)

Jul 24, 2007

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mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

Kenneth E. Bailey shows that this portion of the Luke 15 parable is a combination of straight parallelism with an inverted parallelism in the middle. 1. YOU 4 "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep 2. ONE and losing one of them, 3. NINETY-NINE does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness A. LOST …
The Prodigal Son (Part 3)

Dec 20, 2005

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mwkruse

in Series: Luke 15 – Kenneth E. Bailey

[Previous] The parable of The Compassionate Father consists of two inverted Parallelisms. The first is about the younger son and contains eight stanzas. The second is about the older son and contains seven stanzas. I you are not familiar with this type of presentation, note that "A." below is answered by the next "A.," "B."…