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Difficult Words of Jesus

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  • Publisher: Hymns Ancient & Modern

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As well as telling parables and stories, giving teachings on how to discern questions of ethics and human nature, and offering beatitudes for comfort and encouragement, Jesus also spoke words and flung insults that followers then and now have found difficult, to say the least. He instructs disciples to hate members of their own families (Luke 14:26), warns that unending fire awaits some people, says body parts should be cut off if they offend. He calls a foreign woman a ‘dog’, the Jews ‘offspring of vipers’ and his closest disciple ‘Satan’. Preachers often gloss over these or avoid them altogether as they are still so shocking. In The Difficult Words of Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine sheds vital light on understanding these by exploring how these sayings sounded to those who first heard them. She reveals Jewish modes of expression, humour and the long tradition of Jewish insults and what they mean, and how we might interpret these sayings today within a gospel of love and reconciliation.
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  • Title

    Difficult Words of Jesus

  • Author

    Amy-Jill Levine

  • Book Format

    eBook (Christian360)

  • Publisher

    Hymns Ancient & Modern

  • Published

    October 2022

  • ISBN

    9781786224774

  • ISBN-10

    1786224771

  • Eden Code

    6178954

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