Jacob & the Prodigal
Subtitle: How Jesus Retold Israel's Story
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780830827275
Subjects: Prodigal son (Parable); Religion - Biblical Studies; N.T; Bible.; Religion; Relation to Genesis; N.T.; Biblical Studies - New Testament; Bible - Study - New Testament; (Biblical patriarch); Bible; Jacob; Luke XV, 11-32
First sentence: What is theology, and what does it mean to be a theologian?
Description: 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 theological significance and differences that often reveal Jesus' particular purposes. Drawing on a lifetime of study in both Middle Eastern culture and the Gospels, Bailey offers here a fresh view of how Jesus interpreted Israel's past, his present and their future.