What did Jesus Mean?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (761 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195137337 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Anna Wierzbicka Professor of Linguistics Australian National University, Canberra
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. Written in dialogue with other biblical commentators, What Did Jesus Mean? is both scholarly rigorous yet accessible.. Her approach results in strikingly novel interpretations of the Gospels
Good for background studies in preaching This is one of the better books I've read on the parables of Jesus and the sermon on the mount. It has helped me in preaching. As I read about the parable of the Good Samaritan, I felt like I was hearing the meaning of the parable in a fresh, clear, and uncluttered way or as the author says, "in simple and universal human concepts." It helped me to preach a sermon on the Good Samaritan in a fresh, clear, and uncluttered way.. PAUL J said Paul's Review. I am still reading this book, but have tremendous admiration for the author, being a Roman Catholic Slav, as she is, and an ANU linguistics student, with a keen interest in semantics.. A more open book now René Dirven Anna Wierzbicka is the first person who has managed to make me see what Jesus really meant. Unlike most Bible commentators, Wierzbicka does not paraphrase what Jesus said. That is, she does not just replace Jesus' images by other new images, but in plain and simple words she makes explicit the meanings of those images, the presuppositions contained in what Jesus said, the implied negations and refutations, the implicatures, in one word: the deeper intentions of God's acting in and through Jesus. Her greatest merit is that she does not lead us, readers and believers, away
This is an unusual book. Theology . The author is an internationally renowned linguist and a committed Christian