Talk:Parable of the Good Samaritan

message: One sentence states:  An older coin with this theme is the US "Good Samaritan Shilling" of 1652.
What is the US here?  Obviously the United States didn't exist in 1652, but perhaps there is some other explanation for this.
98.218.240.162 (talk) 01:48, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A clear anachronism; fixed. -- 202.124.72.34 (talk) 14:30, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Art and Popular Culture 

message: I tried the links provided to Biblical Art on the WWW, but I can't can't a picture anywhere, just a list of works. If others also cannot access any artwork by these links, then I suggest they be removed so others like me don't waste a bunch of time due to misplaced trust that the links do what they promise. On the other hand, if others can access the artwork as advertised, then I will be happy and try again.Olorin3k (talk) 18:10, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: > 'Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbour to him who fell among the robbers?"
> He said, "He who showed mercy on him."
This passage seems to suggest the Samaritan was the neighbor while the other two were not.  The sentence "love thy neighbor as thyself" seems then to imply he (the victim of robbers) need only love the Samaritan and not the other 2, and similarly, since they were not the the victim's neighbor, did not have to love the victim.  Then we are to love only those people who are neighbors to us (I don't mean physical neighbors), not everyone?  Although true it does not say "do not love those who are not your neighbors" but it doesn't say to love them either.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.149.53.200 (talk) 02:49, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neighbor (or neighbour) either one ;-) 

message: An article should not contain undefined esoteric terms. "Didactic story" does not link to an explanation of the term, but to the "Parables of Jesus" page. So, for the lay reader, "didactic story" is a gobbledygook term that sheds more darkness than light on the topic of the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77Mike77 (talk • contribs) 14:27, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Didactic story"? 

message: Question what was the Good Samaritan's Name?2001:E68:5413:4C3C:988:99E4:8DE3:81C7 (talk) 13:46, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't matter. It's a story to illustrate a point.77Mike77 (talk) 21:25, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

text: The non-jerky answer is that the Good Samaritan is unnamed in the Bible. Ckruschke (talk) 19:45, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Name of the Good Samaritan 

message: How did we come to characterize him as good, since the term is never used of him in the text? Do we know the oldest historical reference to his being "good"? Two textual indicators are given, "compassion" and a 3-word phrase indicating covenant loyalty (regrettably mistranslated as "mercy," etc.). I ask because a major part of my academic writing and lecturing over the last several years has been on how the tripartite ποιεῖν + ἔλεος + μετά collocation always (cf. Luke 1:72) deals with loyalty to obligations regarding a preexistant covenantal relationship (in this Luke 10 case, obedience to the Lev 19:18 covenant stipulation of financial etc. assistance to a fellow Israelite). Olorin3k (talk) 12:24, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entitling the Samaritan as "Good"? 

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message: The phrasing of Asimov's point was very bad, to the point of making him seem bigoted. Here is a partial quotation of Asimov's words: " “The trouble is that the one word that is NOT translated in the Book of Ruth is the key word “Moabite,” and as long as it is not translated, the point is lost, it is lost in non-translation. The word Moabite [from Ruth’s tale – it also applies for the word Samaritan – ed.] really means “someone of a group that receives from us and deserves from us nothing but hatred and contempt.” How should this word be translated into a single word that means the same thing to, say, many modern Greeks? Why, “Turk.” And to many modern Turks? Why, “Greek.”…[Snip – ed.] … We forget the point of the parable is entirely vitiated by the common phrase “good” Samaritan for that has cast a false light on who the Samaritans were. . . To the Jews [of Jesus’ time – ed.] the Samaritans were not good. They were hated, despised, contemptible heretics with whom no good Jew would have anything to do. Again, the whole point is lost through non-translation. … [Snip – ed.] … The Parable of the Good Samaritan clearly teaches that there is nothing parochial in the concept “neighbor,” that you cannot confine your decency to your own group and your own kind. All mankind, right down to those those you most despise are your neighbors.”Source : Pages 266-270, Isaac Asimov, “Lost in Non-translation” in ‘Magic’ anthology Harper-Collins, 1996. Note for complete transparency: While I have no reason to think that the wording was changed for Magic, it was not the original printing of the essay. --Khajidha (talk) 12:32, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asimov