The Difficult Words of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to His Most Perplexing Teachings Levine Amy Jill
The Difficult Words of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to His Most Perplexing Teachings Levine Amy Jill Examine the most difficult teachings of Jesus with Dr. Jesus provided his disciples teachings for how…
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The Difficult Words of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to His Most Perplexing Teachings Levine Amy Jill
Examine the most difficult teachings of Jesus with Dr. Jesus provided his disciples teachings for 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. Amy-Jill Levine.
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). But sometimes Jesus spoke words that followers then and now have found difficult. 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 The Difficult Words of Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine shows how these difficult teachings would have sounded to the people who first heard them, how have they been understood over time, and how we might