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What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts Anna Wierzbicka Retail Price: $37.50 CenturyOne Price: $37.50 You Save: $0.00 (0%) Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Format: Paperback, 509pp. ISBN: 0195137337 Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc Pub. Date: March 2001 Book Information: Description Reader's Index About the Author Table of Contents Customer Reviews Find Similar Books Average Customer Review: Order This Book! Item No: 3733-7 Safe Shopping Guarantee Description From The Publisher: In this highly interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts new light on the words of Jesus by taking her well-known semantic theory of "universal human concepts"—concepts which are intuitively understandable and self-explanatory across languages—and bringing it to bear on Jesus' parables and the Sermon on the Mount. Her approach results in strikingly novel interpretations of the Gospels. Written in dialogue with other biblical commentators, What Did Jesus Mean? is both scholarly rigorous yet accessible.   Reader's Index Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book.   About the Author Anna Wierzbicka is a Professor in the Department of Linquistics at the Australian National University in Canberra. Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 Part I The Sermon on the Mount 2 The Beatitudes 27 3 You Have Heard ... But I Say to You ... 57 4 Other Key Sayings 126 5 The Lord's Prayer 226 Part II The Parables 6 The Sower 257 7 The Hidden Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price 266 8 The Leaven and The Mustard Seed 274 9 The Lost Sheep and The Lost Coin 292 10 The Prodigal Son 300 11 The Unforgiving Servant 310 12 The Laborers in the Vineyard 320 13 The Servant's Reward 332 14 The Great Feast 341 15 The Last Judgment 356 16 The Good Samaritan 373 17 The Rich Man and Lazarus 380 18 The Rich Fool 388 19 The Doorkeeper 397 20 The Talents 404 21 The Dishonest Steward 414 22 The Unjust Judge and the Friend at Midnight 422 23 The Pharisee and the Tax Collector 429 Part III Conclusions and Further Perspectives 24 An Overall Picture of Jesus' Teaching 441 25 Implications for Theology: Christianity in a Nutshell 444 26 Language: A Key Issue in Understanding Jesus and Christianity 455 Notes 465 References 481 Index 497 Customer Reviews Write your own online review. Look for Similar Books by Subject Biblical Studies The Parables: Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary

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