The Cross And The Prodigal Luke 15 Through The Eyes Of Middle Eastern Peasants

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830868070
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cross & the Prodigal written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preaching Magazine Year's Best Book for Preachers Where is the cross in the parable of the prodigal son? For centuries, Muslims have called attention to the father's forgiveness in this parable in order to question the need for a Mediator between humanity and God. In The Cross and the Prodigal, Kenneth E. Bailey--New Testament scholar and long-time missionary to the Middle East--undertakes to answer this question. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of both the New Testament and Middle Eastern culture, Bailey presents an interpretation of this parable from a Middle Eastern perspective and, in doing so, powerfully demonstrates its essentially Christian message. Here Bailey highlights the underlying tensions between law and love, servanthood and sonship, honor and forgiveness that grant this story such timeless spiritual and theological power.

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cross and the Prodigal written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a one-act play for eight men, 'Two sons have I not'.

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802835284
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Peasant Eyes written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802819475
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1983-05-09 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodology - Analysis of four parables - Exegesis of Luke.

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Lost written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intended meaning, as well as the implications and applications, of the three parables in Luke 15 (The Good Shepherd and the Lost Sheep, The Good Woman and the Lost Coin, and The Good Father and His Two Lost Sons). It reflects the author's immersion in the language, religion, and culture of the Middle East, demonstrating how meaningful the biblical text becomes when a broad background of study and analysis is permitted to illuminate the text. Western readers will gain an array of new insights from this volume and will be fascinated by the author's nuances of interpretation. The author's analysis shows how the cultural background of Arabic and Muslim theology affects the interpretation of these parables.

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830869328
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today Book Award winner 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 shaped this pivotal epistle. He discovers the deep layers of the Hebraic prophetic tradition informing Paul's writing, linking the Apostle with the great prophets of the Old Testament. Throughout, Bailey employs his expert knowledge of Near Eastern and Mediterranean culture to deliver to readers a new understanding of Paul and his world. Familiar passages take on a new hue as they are stripped of standard Western interpretations and rendered back into their ancient setting.

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830868852
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacob & the Prodigal written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel, the community to which Jesus belonged, took its name from their patriarch Jacob. His story of exile and return was their story as well. In the well-known tale of the prodigal son, Jesus reshaped the story in his own way and for his own purposes. In this work, Kenneth E. Bailey compares the Old Testament saga and the New Testament parable. He unpacks similarities freighted with theological significance and differences that often reveal Jesus' particular purposes. Drawing on a lifetime of study in both Middle Eastern culture and the Gospels, Bailey offers here a fresh view of how Jesus interpreted Israel's past, his present and their future.

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830896988
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Shepherd written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logos Bookstores' Best Book "The Lord is my shepherd." Thus begins the most beloved of all Psalms—and thus begins a thousand-year journey through the Bible. Prophets, apostles and Jesus himself took up this image from David, reshaping it, developing it and applying it to their own situations and needs. Kenneth Bailey uses his celebrated insights into Middle Eastern culture and especially his familiarity with Middle Eastern shepherding customs to bring new light and life to our understanding of this central image of the Christian faith. With each of nine major Old and New Testament passages, Bailey reveals the literary artistry of the Biblical writers and summarizes their key theological features. His work is also enriched by his unique access to very early Middle Eastern commentaries on these passages, bringing fresh understanding from within the mindset of these ancient worlds. The Good Shepherd invites us to experience a rich, biblical feast of ethical, theological and artistic delights.

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830875859
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 within his own cultural context. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting. This entirely new material from the pen of Ken Bailey is a must-have for any student of the New Testament. If you have benefited from Bailey's work over the years, this book will be a welcome and indispensable addition to your library. If you are unfamiliar with Bailey's work, this book will introduce you to a very old yet entirely new way of understanding Jesus.

Author : Michael Parker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Middle Eastern Eyes written by Michael Parker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth E. Bailey was both a missionary and a New Testament scholar. As a missionary, first in Egypt and later in Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, and Cyprus, he experienced firsthand the life of traditional Middle Eastern villagers, which led him to the conclusion that the village culture he witnessed in the twentieth century had hardly changed since the first century. Consequently, he was able to reinterpret Jesus's parables and life experiences through this traditional culture. In a remarkable series of acclaimed books, which include The Cross and the Prodigal, Jacob and the Prodigal, and Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes, Bailey showed that Jesus was the first mind of the New Testament who used story and metaphor to challenge the leaders of his day in ways often unappreciated by contemporary readers. This biography explains the origins of Bailey's key ideas and recounts his often fraught missionary career--one that included the austere and the sometimes harsh life in the simple villages of Upper Egypt, the perils of life in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and being evacuated four times during the military conflicts in the region--that made possible his groundbreaking insights into the New Testament.