Ken Bailey presents a collection of essays on the Gospels. You will gain new insights as you view the Gospel stories through the lens of Middle Eastern peasant culture.
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KENNETH E. BAILEY is an author and lecturer in Middle Eastern New Testament studies. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he also serves as Canon Theologian of the Diocese of Pittsburgh of the Episcopal Church, USA. He holds graduate degrees in Arabic language and literature, and in systematic theology; his Th.D. is in New Testament. He spent forty years living and teaching New Testament in Egypt, Lebanon, Jerusalem and Cyprus, still holding the title of research professor (emeritus) of Middle Eastern New Testament studies at the Ecumenical Institute (Tantur), Jerusalem. Bailey has written many books in English and in Arabic, including The Cross and the Prodigal, Poet & Peasant, Through Peasant Eyes, Jacob & the Prodigal and Finding the Lost: Cultural Keys to Luke 15.
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This is designed less like a commentary (unlike his sequel, Paul the M. Eyes) and more like a survey of culture and text.
Bailey does something that few New Testament scholars do: he handles the verse, the Jewish structure of the N.Testament. This is rare, for often cultural studies are all about archeology (which is fine) and yet they use the NIV to get to the root of the text. Bailey is quite good at doing everything (text, archeology, culture, history) as you could tell with the size of the book: it's pretty big.
An excellent addition to the library of any pastor, teacher, or one who has to dip regularly into the Bible and must get it right every time.
Bailey does something that few New Testament scholars do: he handles the verse, the Jewish structure of the N.Testament. This is rare, for often cultural studies are all about archeology (which is fine) and yet they use the NIV to get to the root of the text. Bailey is quite good at doing everything (text, archeology, culture, history) as you could tell with the size of the book: it's pretty big.
An excellent addition to the library of any pastor, teacher, or one who has to dip regularly into the Bible and must get it right every time.
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In short, I enjoyed reading significant parts of this book, even found them emotionally moving at times, though I admit to skimming some sections which did not grab my attention so well. Overall, there are a lot of valuable cultural insights and he does acknowledge some of the difficulties with the evidence. This book is about understanding the biblical portrait of Jesus from a mostly Christian Middle Eastern Cultural perspective, but if one is looking to understand how Jesus is understood in the Islamic tradition concerning the Gospel of Jesus, this book does not address this issue directly. Bailey does not write as a fundamentalist commentator seeking to "harmonize" the gospel accounts and is reasonably critical in his approach to the material given that his main aim is to encourage Western readers to set aside their Western cultural assumptions and read the canonical gospel accounts with Middle Eastern eyes. A couple of problems: he places Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" in the fifth century B.C. (p.73) yet Aristotle was the tutor of Alexander, the conquorer of Persia, in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. and his reference to the "classical past" (p.199.1) should really be a reference to the Hebrew past. A recommended reading despite some quibbles, as I wish that some of my former preachers had been aware of this material, in order that their preaching would have been less mismisleading at times. Hence, Bailey's book serves as a necessary corrective to the foolish assumption that the "ploughboy in Iowa can understand the gospel as well as the Princeton Theologian" and similar ideas that an educated ministry is somehow an unnecessary "frill" that takes away from the simplicity of the gospel.
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This book exemplifies the reason we need to understand the culture of the people during the time of Jesus to more fully understand the stories of the New Testament. Ken Bailey takes one through those stories systematically explaining the scripture from the perspective of a person living in the Middle East. It definitely helped me get a better understanding of what happened and why. I found it a fascinating read, but it can get heavy so it's not a book you can sit down and read cover to cover in a day or two.
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