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SHORT STORIES BY JESUS

SHORT STORIES BY JESUS
 
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ISBN/Product Code
9780061561030
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Publisher
Harper One
Format/Binding
Paperback
Release Date
2015
Number of Pages
352
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£17.99
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In this wise, entertaining, and educational book, Amy-Jill Levine offers a fresh, timely reinterpretation of Jesus' narratives. In Short Stories by Jesus, she analyses 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.