Le Dr. Bailey est un érudit distingué spécialisé dans le contexte culturel et les formes littéraires du Nouveau Testament. Son œuvre approfondie, ancrée dans des décennies de vie et d'enseignement au Moyen-Orient, offre des perspectives profondes sur les textes bibliques à travers le prisme de leur contexte culturel d'origine. Ses analyses éclairent les récits bibliques et leur pertinence pour le lecteur moderne, alliant rigueur académique et style narratif vivant.
Examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer,
the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women and Jesus' parables. This book
reveals Jesus in the light of his historical and cultural setting.
Preaching Magazine Year's Best Book for Preachers 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 and 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 result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul Through
Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul's first epistle to the
Corinthians. Bailey examines this canonical letter through the lenses of
Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and rhetorical background and the Mediterranean
context of the Corinthian recipients.
Considers every major passage in the Bible that takes up the theme of the Good
Shepherd, showing how each biblical writer adapted and applied the shepherd
theme for his own situation and purposes.
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.
Viele Menschen tun sich schwer, Gottes bedingungslose Liebe anzunehmen. Kenneth E. Bailey zeigt, wie Jesus in der Geschichte vom verlorenen Sohn auf atemberaubende Weise von der Vaterliebe Gottes erzählt: Einer Liebe, die sich nach uns Menschen sehnt und selbst den höchsten Preis dafür bezahlt, um unsere Heimkehr ins Vaterhaus zu ermöglichen. Auf ungewohnte Weise bringt Bailey den Kern der christlichen Botschaft zum Ausdruck: Ein spannender Kommentar zu Lukas 15 liefert wertvolles Hintergrundwissen. Arabische Kalligraphie illustriert diese Botschaft, und schließlich zeigt ein dramatisches Theaterstück (das sich mit einfachen Mitteln aufführen oder lesen lässt): Gott ist auf der Suche nach seinen Kindern. Bailey hilft mit diesem Buch, die Geschichten, die Jesus erzählte, neu zu verstehen. Dabei stützt er sich auf seine jahrzehntelange Forschungs- und Lebenserfahrung im Nahen Osten und fragt: Was haben die Erzählungen Jesu damals für seine Zuhörer bedeutet?