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Title: Short Stories by Jesus
Subtitle: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Narrator: Donna Postel
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-28-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Jesus was a skilled storyteller and perceptive teacher who used parables from everyday life to effectively convey his message and meaning. Life in first-century Palestine was very different from our world today, and many traditional interpretations of Jesus' stories ignore this disparity and have often allowed anti-Semitism and misogyny to color their perspectives.
In this wise, entertaining, and educational book, Amy-Jill Levine offers a fresh, timely reinterpretation of Jesus' narratives. In Short Stories by Jesus, she analyzes these "problems with parables", taking us back in time to understand how their original Jewish audience understood them. Levine reveals the parables' connections to first-century economic and agricultural life, social customs and morality, Jewish scriptures, and Roman culture. With this revitalized understanding, she interprets these moving stories for a contemporary listener, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about us - and when understood rightly, still challenge and provoke us 2,000 years later.
Critic Reviews:
"As the text enlightens, it also emboldens critical application of Jesus's ancient stories to modern hearts and minds." (
Publishers Weekly starred review)
Members Reviews:
A welcome change of perspective
Though a few of the chapters went a little more in-depth than I expected, over all the book was a refreshing reorientation of context in regard to the parables. Having grown up hearing the dumbed down interpretations, reawakening the challenging complexity of the stories was refreshing, especially since they run across religious lines in the sand...
Fantastic, like all of Amy-Jill Levine's work.
I love stories and storytelling, and Amy-Jill Levine expounds on story, morality and interpretation, as well as their implications on how we live and act in the world. I hope you give it a listen.
The narrator was great, but I wish it were Amy-Jill reading. Just a personal preference.
Informative, interesting, and enjoyable
The readers voice pleasant to the ears and the book causes one to pause and think.