Living Parables
Living Parables: Today's Versions presents parables in updated language and images. Biblical parables are culture-bound; they are embedded in images that were well-known to a Jewish culture. Jesus was a first-century, Jewish, Galilean peasant, and his concerns, speech, and idioms belong to that culture. His milieu is far removed from ours today. The images found in parables carried meaning that is lost on modern audiences.A simple example will suffice. In the Jewish world of the first century, leaven was considered to be corrupt because people did not understand how bacteria worked. On the most important day of the year--Passover--bread had t…
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Weitere Autoren: Cole, Corbin S.
- ISBN: 978-1-72528-579-8
- EAN: 9781725285798
- Produktnummer: 35614368
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.1 cm 314 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 314
Über den Autor
Mark G. Boyer--a well-known spiritual master--has been writing books on biblical, liturgical, and devotional spirituality for over thirty years. He has written sixty-three spirituality-based volumes that prompt the reader to recognize the divine in everyday life. This is his twenty-fourth Wipf & Stock title, and his second book with Corbin Cole. Corbin S. Cole, a student in Missouri State University majoring in Religious Studies, has led worship services since the age of sixteen. He lives in Tarpon Springs, Florida, with his wife, two cats, and a baby boy named Asher. His passion is fostering spiritual growth through experience and music that focus on awareness of the self and the Divine. This is his second book with Mark Boyer.
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