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Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for modern readers.

Jesus was a skilled storyteller and perceptive teacher who used parables from everyday life to effectively convey his message and meaning. Life in first-century Palestine was very different from our world today, and many traditional interpretations of Jesus’ stories ignore this disparity and have often allowed anti-Semitism and misogyny to color their perspectives.

In this wise, entertaining, and educational book, Amy-Jill Levine offers a fresh, timely reinterpretation of Jesus’ narratives. In Short Stories by Jesus, she analyzes these “problems with parables,” taking readers back in time to understand how their original Jewish audience understood them. Levine reveals the parables’ connections to first-century economic and agricultural life, social customs and morality, Jewish scriptures and Roman culture. With this revitalized understanding, she interprets these moving stories for the contemporary reader, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about us—and when read rightly, still challenge and provoke us two thousand years later.

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"As subversive as any parable, this book not only offers readers new ears for hearing stories we thought we knew by heart; it also shakes the faithful where we most need to be shaken, showing us how close we have come to disarming some of Jesus' most potent teachings. Every new book from A. J. Levine startles me with its brilliance and pluck, but this one goes next to my Bible." --Barbara Brown Taylor, author of Learning to Walk in the Dark

"Ready or not, A.-J. Levine is here to change how you think about Jesus and the stories he told. With her characteristic wit and learned, iconoclastic imagination, Levine presses readers of the parables―especially Christian readers―to question their assumptions, curb their biases, and read Jesus’s words afresh with ancient eyes. A provocative read." --Peter Enns, author of The Bible Tells Me So

"In this brilliant book Amy-Jill Levine invites her audience to read the parables of Jesus through a Jewish lens. The result is a series of stunning new insights into our religious heritage. Levine, a Jewish New Testament scholar of enormous depth, powerfully illumines both Jesus and the Christian story." --John Shelby Spong, author of The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DB32QQY
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ HarperOne; Reprint edizione (9 settembre 2014)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 2216 KB
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  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 355 pagine
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Eunaliz
5,0 su 5 stelle Excellent read for mature adults.
Recensito in Canada il 21 dicembre 2023
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I learned a great deal about the parables that Jesus told in the New Testament.
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Tristan Sherwin
5,0 su 5 stelle Engaging and Provoking
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 23 luglio 2020
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Short Stories by Jesus is an excellent resource. Not only does Professor Amy-Jill Levine do an excellent job of exposing how antisemitic and allegorical interpretations have distorted the parables but, as a Jewish theologian, she helps us eavesdrop into how the original Jewish audience may have understood the stories a Jewish Jesus told.

Engaging, provoking and challenging, Stories by Jesus is a must in the toolbox for those exploring the parables.

—Tristan Sherwin, author of Living the Dream? :The Problem with Escapist, Exhibitionist, Empire-Building Christianity
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Tristan Sherwin
5,0 su 5 stelle Engaging and Provoking
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 23 luglio 2020
Short Stories by Jesus is an excellent resource. Not only does Professor Amy-Jill Levine do an excellent job of exposing how antisemitic and allegorical interpretations have distorted the parables but, as a Jewish theologian, she helps us eavesdrop into how the original Jewish audience may have understood the stories a Jewish Jesus told.

Engaging, provoking and challenging, Stories by Jesus is a must in the toolbox for those exploring the parables.

—Tristan Sherwin, author of Living the Dream? :The Problem with Escapist, Exhibitionist, Empire-Building Christianity
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Edward G. Simmons
5,0 su 5 stelle Levine's book reminds me of what it is like towatch a really outstanding movie
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 19 febbraio 2015
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A.-J. Levine's book reminds me of what it is like to watch a really outstanding movie, like Spielberg's recent movie on Lincoln. The first time through you get the main outlines of the plot. It helps to know something of the subject ahead of time, but still what you get at first is a favorable impression with a sense that deeper probing is needed. It is on the second, third, and subsequent viewings that the artistry and depth really stand out.

The first time through Levine's book, you see the emphasis on recapturing what it was like to be a Jewish hearer in Jesus' time listening to the parables. You would have heard an unexpected and often shocking twist. Getting our minds around the details involved in that message calls for dropping many old assumptions heard since childhood, so letting the full impact of the reinterpretations get through is not easy. As with many good movies, the message is jarring so that internal resistance is felt, bringing discomfort and even confusion as the message may be resisted. Sometimes the music score adds to the harsh initial impressions. That can also be the case in absorbing the initial re-evaluations of these parables.

As with good movies, more exposure gets one used to the music and the ideas as they sink in so that one begins to sense the beauty and depth of the overall production. You begin to pay attention of Levine's own translations which are often quite different from the NRSV and other committee productions that reflect compromises. There is a down-to-earth quality in her nearly word for word translations at points. Then you begin to see how a small difference in translating a single word can turn traditional interpretations, such as those of the Pharisee and Publican, on its head. Suddenly the poor helpless widow can be seen as vengeful and not so appealing. The Prodigal Son begins to make sense as a spoiled brat.

With more reading and deeper reflection, you can see how this book takes on some heavy scholarly debates as Levine thoroughly, and sometimes tediously, goes through the variety of interpretations that have been put forth. Various theories of purity ideas, sociological views of Second Temple Judaism, economic ideas focusing on the dominance of the temple, and even views of how Honor Society traditions shaped the stories -- these point to on-going debates that can best be appreciated with deeper knowledge of the issues.

The result is a consistent picture of how Judaism in the time of Jesus has been misunderstood and poorly described so that the impact on that original audience has been lost. Getting back to the kind of appreciation Levine offers is a triumph of historical study and of her own insights that enhance knowledge of Judaism.

All this points to a potential problem for many readers. The book involves a lot of detailed information presented very thoroughly. This bogs down the reading when you want to keep your eye on the plot as it unfolds. Discussion groups will need assistance to focus on the high points and not get lost in detail that sidetracks their understanding and discussion.

The reader who expects breezy entertainment will have to slow down and dig deeper. When you dig through all that is there, I think you will find you have discovered a mother-load.
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Anthony Fisher
5,0 su 5 stelle Thought Provoking, Excellent Reflections
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 30 ottobre 2021
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Coming from the perspective of a Catholic MA in Theology student slowly working on a thesis on the Synoptic Problem--Dr. Levine's work here was really great. She takes an in-depth look at many of the parables of Jesus (ten chapters looking specifically at individual parables, but with many references to other parables that did not get the full treatment), and she specifically focuses on showing the depth and complexity of them--how we often tame them with a standard interpretation, how we have let subtle forms of anti-Semitism influence our readings, and especially how the Jewish tradition around the time of Jesus would interpret the parables (even showing some of the great parallels to Jesus' teachings found in sources like the Mishnah). There are some minor quibbles I had with the work (just as an example, she leans more heavily in to the Gospel writers [especially Luke] as tamers of some of the parables [like Luke putting the persistent widow/unjust judge in Jesus' teaching about persistent prayer, and saying that some of the "bite" of the parable is lost]), but on a whole, this work is worth reading, worth wrestling with. (I also read the Kindle edition, so if there are any weird editing things in my review, that is due to the app not really letting me navigate through the text I am typing)
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5,0 su 5 stelle A New Persoective
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A very insightful account of some of the New Testament parables. The author's scholarly perspective provides a novel and cogent way to come to a greater understanding and appreciation of this aspect of the New Testament.
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