I highly recommend this book to absolutely any English-speaking reader who is interested in understanding the New Testament for whatever reason, whether they are Christians or merely curious about the Bible, whether they are scholars, clergy or laypeople. The preacher was perfectly right in principle; but his remarks were unfavorable to the interests of the Lord's Missionaries. Bailey's background information, rhetorical analysis, and commentary will provide valuable perspective on often-puzzling passages.

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Too often readers of these stories do not have an adequate understanding of the cultural realities of the time. Wherever Bailey references a rhetorical term, he gives it careful definition, bringing along the novice in the field. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels written by Kenneth E. The insights that can be gleaned both from contemporary life in this part of the world, and from the Christians who lived there prior to the modern era (and in particular those who spoke Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, the language Jesus himself spoke) are extremely important. In this highly stimulating study Kenneth Bailey manages to reflect them all, and more besides, in part because he stands on the shoulders of Middle Eastern interpreters whom few in the West can even read.So it’s no wonder that even His heritage, listed in the book of Matthew, holds some surprises as well.

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Bailey explains, “When you get into the nitty-gritty of telling and responding to Jesus’ story, then we start getting a lack of universality of our own culture and reasoning process.

To name just seven: literary aptitude, linguistic competence, critical shrewdness, cultural sagacity, theological acumen, spiritual sensitivity and hermeneutical sophistication. Beginning with Jesus’ birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. The gospels are based on a Middle Eastern understanding of truth and give an authoritative insider interpretation of what events mean,” he said.

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But the Russian Mission soon outstripped the others, and it was this mission which in 1915 pushed or forced the Assyrians of Persia, as well as the mountaineer tribes of Kurdistan, who had then immigrated into the plains of Salmas and Urmia, to take up arms against their respective Governments. The author includes three sections in each of most of chapters 11 through 32: rhetoric, commentary, and summary. Pretend that the Roman Catholic Church has amnesia and forgets 1500 years of everything said and done in Rome.This entirely new material from the pen of Ken Bailey is a must-have for any student of the New Testament.