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Author: Mary Gordon Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307277623 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 242
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Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers—and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness—is a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive.
Author: Mary Gordon Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307277623 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers—and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness—is a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive.
Author: Allan Millard Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9780567083487 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 292
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Jesus never wrote a book. Most scholars assume that information about Jesus was preserved only orally up until the writing of the Gospels, allowing ample time for the stories of Jesus to grow and diversify. Alan Millard here argues that written reports about Jesus could have been made during his lifetime and that some among his audiences and followers may very well have kept notes, first-hand documents that the Evangelists could weave into their narratives.
Author: Richard Burridge Publisher: SPCK ISBN: 0281070318 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 221
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First published in 1994, and revised in 2005, this classic edition includes updated suggestions for further reading at the end of the book.
Author: Seth Postell Publisher: ISBN: 9781683593539 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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This book addresses the questions about the believer's relationship to the Torah (the five Books of Moses, or the Pentateuch) and its commandments (the Law): Since Jesus kept the Law, are believers (Jewish and Gentile) also obliged to keep the Law, or at least some portions of it (Sabbath, the food laws, etc.)? What about the Oral Law (rabbinic traditions)? How does the Torah point to the Messiah? How do we apply the Law of Moses today? Though this book is based on more than a decade of academic research, it is written with the non-academic reader in mind and provides easy-to-understand answers to the questions related to the Torah and does so in a manner thoroughly rooted in a careful reading of the biblical text.
Author: Lois Tverberg Publisher: Baker Books ISBN: 1493412671 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 292
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What would it be like for modern readers to sit down beside Jesus as he explained the Bible to them? What life-changing insights might emerge from such a transformative encounter? Lois Tverberg knows the treasures that await readers willing to learn how to read the Bible through Jewish eyes. By helping them understand the Bible as Jesus and his first-century listeners would have, she bridges the gaps of time and culture in order to open the Bible to readers today. Combining careful research with engaging prose, Tverberg leads us on a journey back in time to shed light on how this Middle Eastern people approached life, God, and each other. She explains age-old imagery that we often misinterpret, allowing us to approach God and the stories and teachings of Scripture with new eyes. By helping readers grasp the perspective of its original audience, she equips them to read the Bible in ways that will enrich their lives and deepen their understanding.
Author: Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442426209 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Jesus loves you, did you know? Jesus loves me! This I know For the Bible tells me so. The popular Sunday school song is the background text for this warm and richly illustrated book.
Author: Reader's Digest Association Publisher: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association ISBN: 9780895772572 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 340
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The life of Jesus the Messiah with a description of the land, social conditions, religious environment, and historical context in which he lived.
Author: Amy-Jill Levine Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 140082737X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 455
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The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed new light on the Jesus of history, including pagan prayers and private inscriptions, miracle tales and martyrdoms, parables and fables, divorce decrees and imperial propaganda. The translated materials--from Christian, Coptic, and Jewish as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian texts--extend beyond single phrases to encompass the full context, thus allowing readers to locate Jesus in a broader cultural setting than is usually made available. This book demonstrates that only by knowing the world in which Jesus lived and taught can we fully understand him, his message, and the spread of the Gospel. Gathering in one place material that was previously available only in disparate sources, this formidable book provides innovative insight into matters no less grand than first-century Jewish and Gentile life, the composition of the Gospels, and Jesus himself.
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