K. Wildgen wrote
> I suspect
>that current political, social or "theological" events or concerns were
>involved. But that remains, as I said, a suspicion.
Dear kwildgen: ( sorry again, but I could find no direct signature to address)
A further thought on my previous posting with suggestions
about the homiletic and commentary tradition of the parable of the
Prodigal Son:
Looking back upon the earlier exegetical tradition of this
Luke passage,
the interpretive models seem to have been sent in two( unequal)
diections collectively by Jerome's, Letter 21; Augustine's Questions
on the Gospels; and Ambrose, On the Gospel of St. Luke;and
Tertullian, On Purity . While these four differ somewhat in
trajectory, they seem to be in some agreement about the reading of
Luke 15: 16-
<et cupiebat implere ventrem suum de siliquis quas porci manducabant>.
While Jerome may offer two possibilities for those pods being
fed to the pigs ( one being the general list of the sins of
profligacy, drunkenness, fornication, greed, etc), he as well, and
much more forcefully interprets these pods as secular literature,
philosophy and rhetoric. PL, col 385: " The food of the demons is the
songs of the poets, secular wisdom and the pomp of rhetorical
speech." Augustine, while less sharply toned in his reading of this
passage, also interprets these pods, ( food of the pigs) as worldly
wisdom, resonant with sterile vanity .( Quaest. cols 1344-45, Morin.)
In search of "social and theological concerns, I recall a short while
ago another thread on our list concerning 11thc objections to the
liberal arts. You might consider the status and profile of the
transmission of that Jerome/Aug reading when examining the other
later exegetes.[ who, in fact, were moving toward the more general
reading of individual profligacy ( Ambrose) and away from the
associations with the liberal arts and secular wisdom ]
You might also check
Warren S. Kissinger. The Parables of Jesus. A History of
Interpretation and Bobliography. Metuchen, NJ and London: 1979
and for related passages:
Werner Monselewski. Der barmherzige Samariter. Eine
auslegungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu Lukas 10: 25-37. Tubingen
1967.
I hope this helps your search:
Josef Gulka
Josef Gulka
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Tel: 215- 732-8420
Fax (215) 732-8420
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