El trabajo extensivo de Bailey en la cultura campesina del Medio Oriente le ha ayudado en su intento de determinar las suposiciones culturales a las que habria llegado su audiencia al contarles las parabolas. Los mismos valores que comunicaron las parabolas en el tiempo de Jesus, sugiere Bailey, pueden ser descubiertos hoy en comunidades aisladas en lugares como Egipto, Libano, Siria e Irak. Al explorar las visiones mundiales sobre estas culturas, es posible discernir, por ejemplo, lo que significo hace dos mil anos atras para un amigo venir a llamar a media noche, o que un hijo pidiera su...

Honored in 2006 as a "Year's Best Book for Preachers" by Preaching magazine. Where is the cross in the parable of the prodigal son? For centuries, Muslims have called attention to the father's forgiveness in this parable in order to question the need for a Mediator between humanity and God. In The Cross the Prodigal, Kenneth E. Bailey--New Testament scholar and long-time missionary to the Middle East--undertakes to answer this question. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of both the New Testament and Middle Eastern culture, Bailey presents an interpretation of this parable from a Middle...

Viele Menschen tun sich schwer, Gottes bedingungslose Liebe anzunehmen. Kenneth E. Bailey zeigt, wie Jesus in der Geschichte vom verlorenen Sohn auf atemberaubende Weise von der Vaterliebe Gottes erzählt: Einer Liebe, die sich nach uns Menschen sehnt und selbst den höchsten Preis dafür bezahlt, um unsere Heimkehr ins Vaterhaus zu ermöglichen. Auf ungewohnte Weise bringt Bailey den Kern der christlichen Botschaft zum Ausdruck: Ein spannender Kommentar zu Lukas 15 liefert wertvolles Hintergrundwissen. Arabische Kalligraphie illustriert diese Botschaft, und schließlich zeigt ein...

Kenneth E. Bailey draws on a lifetime of study in Middle Eastern culture, the Gospels and the parable of the prodigal son to offer a fresh view of how Jesus interpreted Israel's past, his present and their future.

Logos Bookstores' 2015 Best Book in Theology/Doctrine/Reference "The Lord is my shepherd." Thus begins the most beloved of all Psalms--and thus begins a thousand-year journey through the Bible. Prophets, apostles and Jesus himself took up this image from David, reshaping it, developing it and applying it to their own situations and needs. Kenneth Bailey uses his celebrated insights into Middle Eastern culture and especially his familiarity with Middle Eastern shepherding customs to bring new light and life to our understanding of this central image of the Christian faith. With each...

This volume is a combined edition of Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes, Kenneth Bailey's intensive studies of the parables in the gospel of Luke.
Bailey begins by surveying the development of allegorical, historical-eschatological, aesthetic, and existential methods of interpretation. Though figures like Julicher, Jeremias, Dodd, Jones, and Via have made important advances, Bailey sees the need to go beyond them by combining an examination of the poetic structures of the parables with a better understanding of the Oriental culture that informs the text.
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Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women, and especially Jesus' parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead you into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus...

In this groundbreaking study of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians, Bailey examines the canonical letter through Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and rhetorical background and through the Mediterranean context of its Corinthian recipients. 590 pp.