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Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

Beginning with Jesus’ birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord’s Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus’ relationship to women, and especially Jesus’ parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead you into a deeper...

SOME STORIES SHOULD NOT BE presented on television. For me, the murder of the children in Bethlehem is such a story (Mt 2:16–18). The scene is simply too brutal for viewers, even in modern times. Two questions arise: Why did such an event happen, and why did Matthew include such an unspeakably repulsive story in his Gospel? Herod was an exceedingly complex person. Racially, he was an Arab. His father
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