[Magdalen] Palm Sunday thread

[Joseph Cirou]

Do you think the Divine Partner of inspiration was having a huge laugh and satire was EXACTLY what was intended with  material Messianicals and leg"listic pharisaicals?

I am bemused by the possibility, still unaware of Satire in Intertestamental Hebrew Literature.
(Unaccepted thesis at Santa Sophia University by Archimandrite Ioasaph's nephew Barsanuphius Apfelmeister)

-----Original Message-----
>From: Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 20, 2016 2:59 PM
>To: magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: [Magdalen] Palm Sunday thread
>
>Sally wrote:
>
>BTW, I suddenly realised this morning that one of the great unsung miracles
>of Jesus, would be getting on a colt that's never been ridden and not being
>immediately thrown off.
>
>Walter Wink in Engaging the Powers described Jesus' procession  as
>farce, with him trying to ride an unbroken donkey colt, a satire of a
>triumphal procession.  He said it must have taken all of the disciples
>to catch and hold the creature long enough for Jesus to mount it.
>Susan
>
>-- 
>The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
>you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
>land of Egypt.
>Leviticus 19:34