Re-Imagine the World - Softcover

Bernard Brandon Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944344860 ISBN 13: 9780944344866

Publisher: Polebridge Press, 2001

Synopsis

In his parables Jesus re-imagines the world. The re-imagined world, called the kingdom of God, presents his followers with a new option for living, one that contrasts with the default world of the everyday. The new world is both terrifying and liberating. In this book the author sets his interpretation of the key parables of Jesus in the context of other things Jesus said and did. The result is a startling and provocative picture of the historical figure and the challenge he presents to contemporary life.

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard Brandon Scott is the author of several books, including Hear Then the Parable, one of the most important books on parables in this generation, and the editor of several more. A charter member of the Jesus Seminar, he is co-chair of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and a consultant to the American Bible Society experimental film translations. In recognition of that work, the American Bible Society Research Center awarded him a research grant for 1999–2000 to work on sound mapping, the study of sound as the communication environment of the ancient world

Review:

It will be difficult to find a better book for serious study by people of all abilities. --Sewanee Theological Review

Scott's language, with a flair for the creative and the idiomatic, his unobtrusive scholarship, and his personal approach to interpretation make this an ideal resource for introducing the parables to a lay audience. --The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

Brandon Scott outdoes himself in making a diffcult subject accessible. The reader will not soon forget his incisive analyses. --Robert W Funk

About this edition

• Publisher: Polebridge Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0944344860
• ISBN 13: 9780944344866
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180