The paper dealt with the analysis of three Luke parables (Luke 12,13-21; 16,1-8a. 19-31); while the parable from Luke 12,13-21 was analyzed in detail, the other two parables from the 16th chapter were interpreted within comparison. The exegesis addressed the image of the agricultural rich in Roman times and their unpopularity, as well as the possible Epicurean undertone of the parable and criticism of the Epicureans.
The motif of the sudden death of the happy, wealthy man and the dimension of the eschatological motif, when the "soul of the rich man" is in danger, was emphasized. The text serves as a reference text for a person's life and has the potential to act on the reader's "ethical violence," the acceptance of which is not easy, but it builds a real image of the reader in front of himself (see Judith Butler).
The historical dimension of the text is not entirely suppressed, and the image of the rich man in the time of Jesus, Luke and the context of Roman society from the time of Pompeius to the time of Trajan is examined. Linking contextuality, a new look at historiography and biography, thanks to the works of N.
Frye and H. White, gives the interpretation a dimension of orientation to the very process of reading and following the motive of the rich man from antiquity to today and examines shifts in the context of social memory.