Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads readers 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. Employing his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting.

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IVP ACADEMIC, 2008
9 x 6 inches 443 pages

KENNETH E. BAILEY (Th.D., Concordia Seminary, St. Louis) is an author, lecturer and emeritus research professor of Middle Eastern New Testament studies for the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. He spent forty years living and teaching New Testament in Egypt, Lebanon, Jerusalem, and Cyprus, and has written many books in English and Arabic, including The Cross & the Prodigal, Poet & Peasant, Through Peasant Eyes, Jacob & the Prodigal, and Finding the Lost: Cultural Keys to Luke 15.