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The Difficult Words of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to His Most Perplexing Teachings
Category: Books > Scripture > New Testament
Author/Artist: AMY JILL LEVINE
ISBN / ID: 9781791007577
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$28.95
  
Description: Dr. Amy-Jill Levine examines the most difficult teachings of Jesus. Jesus gave teachings to his disciples on how to follow Torah, God's word; he told them parables to help them discern questions of ethics and of human nature; he offered them beatitudes for comfort and encouragement.

But sometimes Jesus spoke words that his followers, then and now, have found difficult. He instructs disciples to hate members of their own families (Luke 14:26), to act as if they were slaves (Matthew 20:27), and to sell their belongings and give to the poor (Luke 18:22). He restricts his mission (Matthew 10:6); he speaks of damnation (Matthew 8:12); he calls Jews the devil's children (John 8:44).

In her book, Amy-Jill Levine shows how these difficult teachings would have sounded to the people who first heard them, how they have been understood over time, and how we might interpret them in the context of the Gospel of love and reconciliation.
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