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Short Stories by Jesus by Levine, AmyJill

ISBN: 9780061561016 PUBLISHER: HarperOne FORMAT: Hardcover PAGES: 20 PUBLICATION DATE: 8.04.2014 DIMENSIONS: 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: Renowned biblical scholar at Vanderbilt Divinity School, author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament, AmyJill Levine reveals the "live and uncut" version of Jesus' most popular teaching tool, the parable, exposing their misinterpretations and making them come alive for today's reader. Jesus was a great storyteller, and his most effective teachings were communicated in parables. They were so effective because the parables were taken from everyday life. But everyday life in firstcentury Palestine was very different from today, and this has led to some unfortunate misunderstandings of the parables, involving antiSemitism, misogyny, Christian triumphalism, or just plain bad thinking. After exposing these "problems with parables," AmyJill Levine takes the reader back in time to understand how the first (Jewish) hearers of the parables understood them: from their connection to firstcentury economy and agriculture, to their social customs and morality, to Jewish scriptures and Roman culture. With this revitalized understanding, Levine then interprets these moving stories for the contemporary reader, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about usand still as provocative and challenging as they were two thousand years ago.

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