Kenneth E Bailey
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2009
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Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationships with women, and especially Jesus' parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead you into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus
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"This volume is a combined edition of Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes , Kenneth Bailey's intensive studies of the parables in the gospel of Luke. Bailey begins by surveying the development of allegorical, historical-eschatological, aesthetic, and existential methods of interpretation. Though figures like Julicher, Jeremias, Dodd, Jones, and Via have made important advances, Bailey sees the need to go beyond them by combining an examination...
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"Christianity Today Paul was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, steeped in the learning of his people. But he was also a Roman citizen who widely traveled the Mediterranean basin, and was very knowledgeable of the dominant Greek and Roman culture of his day. These two mighty rivers of influence converge in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. With razor-sharp attention to the text, Kenneth Bailey examines the cultural milieu and rhetorical strategies that...
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El trabajo extensivo de Bailey en la cultura campesina del Medio Oriente le ha ayudado en su intento de determinar las suposiciones culturales a las que habría llegado su audiencia al contarles las parábolas. Los mismos valores que comunicaron las parábolas en el tiempo de Jesús, sugiere Bailey, pueden ser descubiertos hoy en comunidades aisladas en lugares como Egipto, Líbano, Siria e Irak. Al explorar las visiones mundiales sobre estas culturas,...
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¿Donde está la cruz en la parábola del hijo prodigo? Por siglos, los musulmanes han usado el perdón del padre para cuestionar la necesidad de un mediador entre la humanidad y Dios. Kenneth Bailey presenta esta parábola desde la perspectiva del Medio Oriente y, al hacerlo así, demuestra de una forma poderosa su mensaje esencialmente cristiano. Esta edición revisada del clásico de Bailey ahora incluye una nueva introducción y está actualizada....
Author
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English
Description
Kenneth E. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus's relationship to women, and especially Jesus's parables.
Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead listeners into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers...
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