"In the Bible, whose return heralded the killing of ""the fatted calf""?"
Fatted calf usage, "killing the fatted calf" can simply mean to celebrate in an exuberant manner, as used in the Elton John song "Bennie and the Jets". Fatted calf Fatted calf is a metaphor or symbol of festive celebration and rejoicing for someone's long-awaited return. It derives from the Parable of the Prodigal Son in the New Testament. In biblical times, people would often keep at least one piece of livestock that was fed a special diet to fatten it up, thus making it more flavorsome when prepared as a meal. Slaughtering this livestock was to be done on rare and special
Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt published in a French translation by Gallimard in 1998 before being picked by Grove Press and Picador who published the original English text. Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt Lord of the Barnyard is a novel by Tristan Egolf. Somewhere in Kentucky, perhaps Indiana, we learn via third person narration about the life of John Kaltenbrunner. Essentially we follow the life of John and his unimaginably bad luck, until he meets a group that is even worse off - garbage men whom the town considers the lowest of the low