Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99299 in Books
• Published on: 1983-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Synopsis
Uses a thorough understanding of Middle Eastern peasant culture and modern literary criticism to analyze the New Testament parables in Luke.

Customer Reviews

This is the best book ever written on the parables.
I have read several books on the parables, but this is the most enlightening, most preachable and most interesting there is. When you have done a great deal of reading in an area, you begin to doubt how much even a good book is going to help you learn. This book is like someone provided you with a whole new insight in to meaning of the parables. Scholarly yet down to earth! The genuis of the book is that he combines over thirty years of Biblical scholarship and living among the culture of the Middle East. You learn what it meant to the people who Jesus was teaching 2,000 years ago. The only negative for me was the poetry portion of the book, which will probably excite poetry scholars, but was a mystery to me. If you are a Biblical scholar or learner or teacher, it is a must read.

A bit heavy going but worth persevering
New light on a number of parables. Fascinating reading, and good sermon material too.

Essential reading
Anybody who really wants to understand the parables is advised to read this book. Firmly rooted in the academic tradition, yet with the insight having actually lived in a culture close to that in which Jesus himself taught, Kenneth Bailey rolls back misunderstandings and lets the original words and ideas shine out. A book to change academic understanding and also to transform lives.