‘’And who is my neighbour?’’ These are the words which lead to the story of the Good Samaritan. Reading this story now may seem monotonous and boring, you may even say, there’s nothing new for me in that story. But let’s dive deeper.
The word “Mythos” signifies a traditional or recurrent narrative theme. It also denotes the underlying system of beliefs characteristic of a particular cultural group.
To begin to fully understand the story, we have to look at this narrative in the context of Jesus’ time, more specifically we have to look at the relationship between Jews and Samaritans.
The Lawyer
In the story of the Good Samaritan we here of a lawyer who questions Jesus, a lawyer was a doctor of the law, he was someone who presented the written …show more content…
All this was made worse after the United Kingdom established by King David was split into the Northern Kingdom (Israel) and the Southern Kingdom (Judah). And with the mixture of different races in the North it further drove a wedge between the Samaritans and Jews. The decisive moment that ‘’alienated the Samaritans and the Jews was the destruction of their Temple by John Hyrcanus.’’
So the Samaritans were cut off from Jewish society, the Samaritans we considered outcasts to the Jews. The once brothers were now ostracised and treated as inferior and unclean. What makes the narrative now more fascinating is that only Jews could enter the city of Jerusalem, therefore the man who had been robbed and beaten was a Jew, his own people walked past him but a Samaritan who should be considered his enemy and who had every right to walk past the man stopped and showed concern for the wounded man as though he (the Jew) was his (the Samaritan) own.
The relationship during the time of …show more content…
Like the Good Samaritan, we need to step out of our Mythos (the way we perceive things) or in this case people and enter into a dialogue with others. Though what prevents such a dialogue is our Pathos (discomfort, pains or emotions), in this case pains of past history of dealing with people, be it religious or other blocks that hinder a
The word “Mythos” signifies a traditional or recurrent narrative theme. It also denotes the underlying system of beliefs characteristic of a particular cultural group.
To begin to fully understand the story, we have to look at this narrative in the context of Jesus’ time, more specifically we have to look at the relationship between Jews and Samaritans.
The Lawyer
In the story of the Good Samaritan we here of a lawyer who questions Jesus, a lawyer was a doctor of the law, he was someone who presented the written …show more content…
All this was made worse after the United Kingdom established by King David was split into the Northern Kingdom (Israel) and the Southern Kingdom (Judah). And with the mixture of different races in the North it further drove a wedge between the Samaritans and Jews. The decisive moment that ‘’alienated the Samaritans and the Jews was the destruction of their Temple by John Hyrcanus.’’
So the Samaritans were cut off from Jewish society, the Samaritans we considered outcasts to the Jews. The once brothers were now ostracised and treated as inferior and unclean. What makes the narrative now more fascinating is that only Jews could enter the city of Jerusalem, therefore the man who had been robbed and beaten was a Jew, his own people walked past him but a Samaritan who should be considered his enemy and who had every right to walk past the man stopped and showed concern for the wounded man as though he (the Jew) was his (the Samaritan) own.
The relationship during the time of …show more content…
Like the Good Samaritan, we need to step out of our Mythos (the way we perceive things) or in this case people and enter into a dialogue with others. Though what prevents such a dialogue is our Pathos (discomfort, pains or emotions), in this case pains of past history of dealing with people, be it religious or other blocks that hinder a