The Cross and the Prodigal: The 15th Chapter of Luke, Seen Through the Eyes of Middle Eastern Peasants

Bailey, Kenneth E.

Religion & Spirituality

Concordia Pub. House

This book explores the intended meaning, as well as the implications and applications, of the three parables in Luke 15 (The Good Shepherd and the Lost Sheep, The Good Woman and the Lost Coin, and The Good Father and His Two Lost Sons). It reflects the author's immersion in the language, religion, and culture of the Middle East, demonstrating how meaningful the biblical text becomes when a broad background of study and analysis is permitted to illuminate the text. Western readers will gain an array of new insights from this volume and will be fascinated by the author's nuances of interpretation. The author's analysis shows how the cultural background of Arabic and Muslim theology affects the interpretation of these parables.

Finding the Lost Cultural Keys to Luke 15 (Concordia Scholarship Today)

Christian Books & Bibles

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. Bailey's work within Middle Eastern peasant culture over the last twenty years has helped him in his attempt to determine the cultural assumptions that the teller of the parables must have made about his audience. The same values which underlay the impact of the parables in Christ's time, Bailey suggests, can be discovered today in isolated peasant communities in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Because time has made almost no impact in these cultural pockets, it is possible to discern, for example, what it meant 2,000 years ago for a friend to come calling at midnight, or for a son to ask for his inheritance prior to his father's death. In addition to illuminating the cultural framework of the parables, Bailey offers an analysis of their literary structure, treating the parabolic section as a whole as well as its individual components. Through its combination of literary and cultural analyses, Bailey's study makes a number of profound advances in parabolic interpretation.

Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke (Combined edition)

Eerdmans

Through peasant eyes: More Lucan parables, their culture and style

W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.

¿Donde está la cruz en la parábola del hijo prodigo? Por siglos, los musulmanes han usado el perdón del padre para cuestionar la necesidad de un mediador entre la humanidad y Dios. Kenneth Bailey presenta esta parábola desde la perspectiva del Medio Oriente y, al hacerlo así, demuestra de una forma poderosa su mensaje esencialmente cristiano. Esta edición revisada del clásico de Bailey ahora incluye una nueva introducción y está actualizada. En ella él detalla las tensiones entre la ley y el amor, ser siervo y ser hijo, al igual que entre el honor y el perdón, las cuales le dan a esta historia un poder teológico y espiritual invaluable.

BTV # 05: El hijo pródigo: Lucas 15 a través de la mirada de campesinos de Oriente Medio (5) (Biblioteca Teologica Vida) (Spanish Edition)

Vida

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 habría llegado su audiencia al contarles las parábolas. Los mismos valores que comunicaron las parábolas en el tiempo de Jesús, sugiere Bailey, pueden ser descubiertos hoy en comunidades aisladas en lugares como Egipto, Líbano, Siria e Irak. Al explorar las visiones mundiales sobre estas culturas, es posible discernir, por ejemplo, lo que significó hace dos mil años atrás para un amigo venir a llamar a media noche, o que un hijo pidiera su herencia antes de que su padre muriera. A través de una combinación de análisis literario y cultural, estos estudios logran una gran cantidad de profundos avances en la interpretación de las parábolas de Jesús.

BTV # 06: Las parábolas de Lucas: Un acercamiento literario a través de la mirada de los campesinos de Oriente Medio (Biblioteca Teologica Vida) (Spanish Edition)

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 the light of his actual historical and cultural setting. This entirely new material from the pen of Ken Bailey is a must-have for any student of the New Testament. If you have benefited from Bailey's work over the years, this book will be a welcome and indispensable addition to your library. If you are unfamiliar with Bailey's work, this book will introduce you to a very old yet entirely new way of understanding Jesus.

Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

IVP Academic

Israel, the community to which Jesus belonged, took its name from their patriarch Jacob. His story of exile and return was their story as well. In the well-known tale of the prodigal son, Jesus reshaped the story in his own way and for his own purposes. In this work, Kenneth E. Bailey compares the Old Testament saga and the New Testament parable. He unpacks similarities freighted with theological significance and differences that often reveal Jesus' particular purposes. Drawing on a lifetime of study in both Middle Eastern culture and the Gospels, Bailey offers here a fresh view of how Jesus interpreted Israel's past, his present and their future.

Jacob & the Prodigal: How Jesus Retold Israel's Story

<ul><li>Honored in 2006 as a "Year's Best Book for Preachers" by Preaching magazine.</li></ul> 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 Eastern perspective and, in doing so, powerfully demonstrates its essentially Christian message. Here Bailey highlights the underlying tensions between law and love, servanthood and sonship, honor and forgiveness that grant this story such timeless spiritual and theological power.

The Cross & the Prodigal: Luke 15 Through the Eyes of Middle Eastern Peasants

The traditional story of Jesus' birth is well known and beloved. A long journey from home. A pregnant mother. The crisis of birth. Remarkable visitors. But there is more. For the first time, here is a drama that accurately presents what the Bible actually says rather than what tradition and mistranslations of Scripture have portrayed. This fresh Christmas drama from world-renowned Middle Eastern and biblical expert Kenneth Bailey is full of wonder and hope. Pastors, Christian educators, musicians and others will welcome the opportunity to present to their congregations this drama of hospitality, grace and joy. Five original contemporary folk songs for guitar and a (SATB) choral anthem are also available to give the production delightful musical accents. InterVarsity Press also provides a PDF download musical score as well as a music CD or MP3 download in which all these songs are performed twice, once with vocals and once with accompaniment only. Without music, the drama can be performed in 25-30 minutes. With music, the performance time is 45-50 minutes. Here is a drama that is biblically accurate, heartwarming and perfectly suited for church performance.

Open Hearts in Bethlehem: A Christmas Drama

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

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