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Jacob and the Prodigal: How Jesus Retold Israel’s Story is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

(like the Lord in Isaiah 6:1) high and lifted up, seated on a throne at a great distance from the worshiper. Three and only three metaphors compose this stream, and each deserves scrutiny. The three personal, compassionate metaphors for God in the Psalter are: Shepherd, Mother and Father. These metaphors are rare and relevant to our topic. 1. God the Good Shepherd. Psalm 23 is the obvious high point of the Psalter’s reflection on God the Good Shepherd and will be examined
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