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Short Stories by Jesus

Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006219819X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Short Stories by Jesus written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for modern readers. Jesus was a skilled storyteller and perceptive teacher who used parables from everyday life to effectively convey his message and meaning. Life in first-century Palestine was very different from our world today, and many traditional interpretations of Jesus’ stories ignore this disparity and have often allowed anti-Semitism and misogyny to color their perspectives. In this wise, entertaining, and educational book, Amy-Jill Levine offers a fresh, timely reinterpretation of Jesus’ narratives. In Short Stories by Jesus, she analyzes these “problems with parables,” taking readers back in time to understand how their original Jewish audience understood them. Levine reveals the parables’ connections to first-century economic and agricultural life, social customs and morality, Jewish scriptures and Roman culture. With this revitalized understanding, she interprets these moving stories for the contemporary reader, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about us—and when read rightly, still challenge and provoke us two thousand years later.

The Difficult Words of Jesus

Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786224755
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Difficult Words of Jesus written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as telling parables and stories, giving teachings on how to discern questions of ethics and human nature, and offering beatitudes for comfort and encouragement, Jesus also spoke words and flung insults that followers then and now have found difficult, to say the least. He instructs disciples to hate members of their own families (Luke 14:26), warns that unending fire awaits some people, says body parts should be cut off if they offend. He calls a foreign woman a ‘dog’, the Jews ‘offspring of vipers’ and his closest disciple ‘Satan’. Preachers often gloss over these or avoid them altogether as they are still so shocking. In The Difficult Words of Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine sheds vital light on understanding these by exploring how these sayings sounded to those who first heard them. She reveals Jewish modes of expression, humour and the long tradition of Jewish insults and what they mean, and how we might interpret these sayings today within a gospel of love and reconciliation.

The Story of Jesus

Author : Jane Werner Watson
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 9780375839412
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Jesus written by Jane Werner Watson and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Jesus for very young children -- a perfect gift for the holiday season! A gentle look at Jesus's birth, childhood, teachings, crucifixion, and resurrection. Written in a simple, warm style, with colorful illustrations that will captivate and inspire.

The Parables of Jesus the Galilean

Author : Ernest van Eck
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498233716
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Book Synopsis The Parables of Jesus the Galilean by : Ernest van Eck

Download or read book The Parables of Jesus the Galilean written by Ernest van Eck and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who do we meet in the stories Jesus told? In The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet, a selection of the parables of Jesus is read using a social-scientific approach. The interest of the author is not the parables in their literary contexts, but rather the parables as Jesus told them in a first-century Jewish Galilean sociopolitical, religious, and economic setting. Therefore, this volume is part of the material turn in parable research and offers a reading of the parables that pays special attention to Mediterranean anthropology by stressing key first-century Mediterranean values. Where applicable, available papyri that may be relevant in understanding the parables of Jesus from a fresh perspective are used to assemble solid ancient comparanda for the practices and social realities that the parables presuppose. The picture of Jesus that emerges from these readings is that of a social prophet. The parables of Jesus, as symbols of social transformation, envisioned a transformed and alternative world. This world, for Jesus, was the kingdom of God.

Parables

Author : Mary Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711215238
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Parables written by Mary Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eight retellings, Mary Hoffman shows how Jesus used simple parables to convey essential truths to his listeners. The parables include The Lost Sheep, The Good Samaritan, The Prodigal Son, and The House on the Rock.

The Jesus Storybook Bible

Author : Sally Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310877024
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Jesus Storybook Bible written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner in the religion category, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible. At the center of the Story is a baby, the child upon whom everything will depend. Every story whispers his name. From Noah to Moses to the great King David---every story points to him. He is like the missing piece in a puzzle---the piece that makes all the other pieces fit together. From the Old Testament through the New Testament, as the Story unfolds, children will pick up the clues and piece together the puzzle. A Bible like no other, The Jesus Storybook Bible invites children to join in the greatest of all adventures, to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the center of God's great story of salvation---and at the center of their Story too.

Parables Jesus Told

Author : Ella K. Lindvall
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780802471161
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Parables Jesus Told written by Ella K. Lindvall and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells eight parables, such as the foolish farmer, the sheep that was lost, and two men who talked to God, in terms of modern situations. Includes the Biblical version and interpretive text.

Love Like Jesus: How Jesus Loved People (and how you can love like Jesus)

Author : Kurt Bennett
Publisher : Enoch Media
ISBN 13 : 0984189556
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Love Like Jesus: How Jesus Loved People (and how you can love like Jesus) written by Kurt Bennett and published by Enoch Media. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Kurt Bennett's popular-ish blog God Running, Love Like Jesus begins with the story of how after a life of regular church attendance and Bible study, Bennett was challenged by a pastor to study Jesus. That led to an obsessive seven-year deep dive. After pouring over Jesus' every interaction with another human being, he realized he was doing a much better job of studying Jesus' words than he was following Jesus' words and example. The honest and fearless revelations of Bennett's own moral failures affirm he wrote this book for himself as much as for others. Love Like Jesus examines a variety of stories, examples, and research, including: -Specific examples of how Jesus communicated God's love to others. -How Jesus demonstrated all five of Gary Chapman's love languages (and how you can too). -The story of how Billy Graham extended Christ's extraordinary love and grace toward a man who misrepresented Jesus to millions. -How to respond to critics the way Jesus did. -How to love unlovable people the way Jesus did. -How to survive a life of loving like Jesus (or how not to become a Christian doormat). -How Jesus didn't love everyone the same (and why you shouldn't either). -How Jesus guarded his heart by taking care of himself--he even napped--and why you should do the same.-How Jesus loved his betrayer Judas, even to the very end. With genuine unfiltered honesty, Love Like Jesus, shows you how to live a life according to God's definition of success: A life of loving God well, and loving the people around you well too. A life of loving like Jesus.

The Misunderstood Jew

Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061748110
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Misunderstood Jew written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth-telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other.

The Story Of Jesus

Author : Ellen Gould White
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849671682
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Story Of Jesus written by Ellen Gould White and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Story Of Jesus' is Ellen Gould White's adaptation of her own work ‘Christ Our Saviour’ for a children's audience. This beautiful narrative of Jesus' life on earth was prepared by the author's son while he was working with mostly illiterate slaves in the South of the United States. It is wonderful to read and tell, even for persons with a limited vocabulary.

The Five Books of Jesus

Author : James Goldberg
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781479271306
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Five Books of Jesus written by James Goldberg and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It starts in the desert. John the prophet lowers Jesus under the Jordan's muddy waters and pulls him up, just as a bird swoops down to skim the river's surface.It spreads next to Galilee, where some welcome Jesus as a disciple of John and others grow wary of his rising influence-fishermen are leaving their nets, tax collectors their offices, and students their masters to listen to this new saint. After abandoning his nets, Andrew ties knots in the threads of his shirt to remember Jesus' teachings. After escaping his slum, Judas waits for Jesus to call down the legions of angels who can end a broken world.But just as Jesus' movement in the north is gaining strength, he turns south toward the Temple and a fate his followers will struggle to understand. The Five Books of Jesus, James Goldberg's lyrical novelization of Jesus' ministry, tells the story of the gospels as Jesus' followers might have experienced it: without knowing what would happen next or how to make sense of events as they unfold.

The Forty Parables of Jesus

Author : Gerhard Lohfink
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 081468534X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The Forty Parables of Jesus written by Gerhard Lohfink and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Catholic Media Association first place award in scripture: academic studies In this book, which covers all of Jesus’ parables, award-winning author Gerhard Lohfink takes a closer look at the origins of each one—its shape, its realistic details, but most of all its original message and the situation into which it was once spoken. Jesus’ parables speak in bold images of the kingdom of God, making it present to us as they reveal something of the mystery of his own person. Lohfink also offers a review of some of the scholarship in this area—as this topic has sustained research on Jesus since the first telling of these stories—but not for the purposes of debate. His reflections interpret the forty parables and show how they speak of the coming of the reign of God, lead us to Jesus, and reveal the mystery of Jesus himself.

Parables

Author : John F. MacArthur
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1400203503
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Parables written by John F. MacArthur and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why Jesus often spoke in parables? Are you curious about what lessons we can learn from these parables today? Pastor and bestselling author John MacArthur breaks down the parables and teaches us how we can apply these deceptively simple stories to modern Christianity. Jesus was a master storyteller, and the parables he often told were no exception. Beneath these unassuming stories were deeply profound spiritual lessons that were designed to reach all who heard them--from the faithful to the faithless--and they're still relevant today. In Parables, MacArthur argues that these short, memorable stories represented more than just symbolism or a clever teaching style--they were carefully crafted tales that made the mysteries of the Gospel more accessible to everyday believers. Parables will help you see Jesus' teachings in a brand new light, addressing some of the most common questions on the topic, including: When did Jesus start teaching in parables? What makes parables so accessible? How can we interpret these stories? What common threads link each of the parables together? What do parables teach us about the kingdom of God? MacArthur has spent a lifetime sharing the Word of God in clear and comprehensible terms with believers of all walks of life. Let him be your guide as he sheds light on the essential lessons contained in the most infamous and influential short stories the world has ever known.

The Bible With and Without Jesus

Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062560174
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Bible With and Without Jesus written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts – including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms – differently. Exploring and explaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture’s beauty and power. Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler take readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted in the New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts and then how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages include the creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant of Isiah, the book of Jonah, and Psalm 22, whose words, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,” Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross. Comparing various interpretations – historical, literary, and theological - of each ancient text, Levine and Brettler offer deeper understandings of the original narratives and their many afterlives. They show how the text speaks to different generations under changed circumstances, and so illuminate the Bible’s ongoing significance. By understanding the depth and variety by which these passages have been, and can be, understood, The Bible With and Without Jesus does more than enhance our religious understandings, it helps us to see the Bible as a source of inspiration for any and all readers.

Baby Bible Stories About Jesus

Author : Robin Currie
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 9780781405584
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Baby Bible Stories About Jesus written by Robin Currie and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 1996 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Parables

Author : Simon J. Kistemaker
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Parables written by Simon J. Kistemaker and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear introduction to the parables of Jesus, including and examination of their settings, interpretations, and implications for the Christian life.

Holy Bible (NIV)

Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310294142
Total Pages : 6793 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Holy Bible (NIV) written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.