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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...