who told the story of the prodigal son
Jesus Christ
title: Parable of the Prodigal Son text: Parable of the Prodigal Son The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or Lovesick Father) is one of the parables of Jesus and appears in . Jesus Christ shares it with his disciples, the Pharisees and others. In the story, a father has two sons, a younger and an older. The younger son asks the father for his inheritance, and the father grants his son's request. However, the younger son is prodigal (i.e., wasteful and extravagant) and squanders his fortune, eventually becoming destitute. The younger son is forced to return home title: Parable of the Prodigal Son text: written by Sergei Prokofiev, a 1957 ballet by Hugo Alfvén, and an 1968 opera by Benjamin Britten. Many of these adaptations added to the Biblical material to lengthen the story; for example, the 1955 film "The Prodigal" took considerable liberties, such as adding a temptress priestess of Astarte to the tale. The parable is referenced in the last verse of the traditional Irish folk tune "The Wild Rover" ("I'll go home to me parents, confess what I've done / and I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son"). Oblique adaptations include that by the Reverend Robert Wilkins, who told the title: The Prodigal text: The Prodigal The Prodigal is a 1955 Eastmancolor biblical epic CinemaScope film made by MGM starring Edmund Purdom and Lana Turner. It was based on the New Testament parable about a selfish son who leaves his family to pursue a life of pleasure. The film also features James Mitchell, Louis Calhern, Joseph Wiseman, Cecil Kellaway and Walter Hampden. The dancer Taina Elg made her film debut. The story is loosely based on Jesus Christ's parable of the prodigal son, from the Gospel According to Luke 15:11-32, although considerable liberties are taken with the source material, chief among them being the title: The Prodigal Son (play) text: The Prodigal Son (play) The Prodigal Son: a dramatic renarration () written by Norwegian author and philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990) in 1951, is a dramatized representation of the life of Jesus, named Immanuel in Zapffe's play. The play is a dramatic biography of Jesus, influenced by the philosophical thoughts represented in the essay "Den sidste Messias" (en. "The Last Messiah") published in 1933 and Zapffe's philosophical treatise, "Om det tragiske" (en. "On the Tragic") published in 1941. Zapffe asserts that Jesus, like most people in the past and present, misinterpreted what it means to be human on this earth. title: Parable of the Prodigal Son text: 1992 book, "The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming", in which he describes his own spiritual journey infused with understanding based on an encounter with Rembrandt's painting of the return of the Prodigal and deals with three personages: the younger, prodigal son; the self-righteous, resentful older son; and the compassionate father – all of whom the author identifies with personally. An earlier work with similarities to the parable is "Le retour de l'enfant prodigue" ("The Return of the Prodigal Son"), a short story by André Gide. Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem giving an interpretation of the younger