Download or read book The Logia of Yeshua written by Guy Davenport and published by Catapult. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus was a street preacher who taught through story and aphorism. Antedating the Gospels, these 105 sayings were recorded by his followers during and shortly after his lifetime. Through the immediacy of direct quotation, Davenport and Urrutia's bold translation shakes our preconceptions, reintroducing us to the living teacher whose powerful words ring anew. A new edition is available at ISBN 978-1640093454.
Download or read book The Sayings of Jesus written by and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus was a street preacher who taught through story and aphorism. Antedating the Gospels, these 105 sayings were recorded by his followers during and shortly after his lifetime. Through the immediacy of direct quotation, Guy Davenport and Benjamin Urrutia’s bold translation shakes our preconceptions, reintroducing us to the West’s greatest teacher, whose powerful words ring anew.
Download or read book The Logia of Yeshua written by Guy Davenport and published by Counterpoint LLC. This book was released on 1996 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers the sayings of Jesus from the Gospels and other sources, translated into everyday English
Download or read book The Logia written by John Todd Ferrier and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kabbalistic Teachings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas written by Lewis Keizer and published by Lewis Keizer. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospel of Thomas preserves a core of authentic Aramaic sayings of Yeshua older than the earliest Christian writings. When they are isolated from the second-century Gnostic framework, they reveal many of Yeshua's inner-circle kabbalistic teachings. Scholars can restore much of the pre-kabbalistic tradition of Yeshua's era through sources like the Sepher Yetzirah, Sepher Ha-Razim, and the haggadah preserved in the Mishna, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds, Philo of Alexandria, and the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. These were the Holy Scriptures of Essenes, Zadokites, and other messianic Jews of the period, including Yeshua and his disciples. The Psalms they chanted in worship and Shabbat Seder were not just those of our Old Testament, but the messianic Odes of Solomon and others preserved in Enochian and apocalyptic scripture. A study of this forgotten sacred literature allows modern scholars to understand and reconstruct the oral Kabbalah of Yeshua embedded in the Gospel of Thomas.
Download or read book Destroying Idols written by Norman K. Swazo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism and Christianity have different meanings for the concept of ‘God.’ These religions rely on different transmitted texts. Different words – in the biblical Hebrew, biblical Greek, biblical Latin, biblical English – contribute to confusion in meaning. For example, what does ‘elohim’ mean? Is there a difference between ‘Yah’ and ‘Yahweh’? This book examines this confusion in meaning in the biblical texts. This confusion is at the heart of the divorce of Judaism and Christianity. Despite this, we can have a new way of understanding the concept “God”, by which one may re-examine and support a minority point of view in rabbinic tradition, known as the “two powers in heaven” doctrine. Given this revision, there is ample reason for enlightened renewal of a “messianic” interpretation of both Jewish and Christian faiths. This book, therefore, speaks to theologians, philosophers of religion with interests in Jewish and Christian religious traditions, students of philosophy, and informed believers.
Download or read book The Gospel of Thomas written by Jean-Yves Leloup and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation and analysis of the gospel that records the actual words of Jesus • Explores the gnostic significance of Jesus's teachings recorded in this gospel • Explains the true nature of the new man whose coming Jesus envisioned • Translated and interpreted by the author of the bestselling The Gospel of Mary Magdalene and The Gospel of Philip One of the cache of codices and manuscripts discovered in Nag Hammadi, the Gospel of Thomas, unlike the canonical gospels, does not contain a narrative recording Christ's life and prophecies. Instead it is a collection of his teachings--what he actually said. These 114 logia, or sayings, were collected by Judas Didymus Thomas, whom some claim to be Jesus's closest disciple. No sooner was this gospel uncovered from the sands of Upper Egypt than scholars and theologians began to bury it anew in a host of conflicting interpretations and polemics. While some say it is a hodgepodge from the canonical gospels, for others it is the source text from which all the gospel writers drew their material and inspiration. In this new translation of the Gospel of Thomas, Jean-Yves Leloup shows that the Jesus recorded by the "infinitely skeptical and infinitely believing" Thomas has much in common with gnostics of non-dualistic schools. Like them, Jesus preaches the coming of a new man, the genesis of the man of knowledge. In this gospel, Jesus describes a journey from limited to unlimited consciousness. The Jesus of Thomas invites us to drink deeply from the well of knowledge that lies within, not so that we may become good Christians but so we may attain the self-knowledge that will make each of us, too, a Christ.
Download or read book The Lost Gospel of Thomas written by Theodore Nottingham and published by Theosis Books. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guy Davenport and James Laughlin written by Guy Davenport and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epistolary exchange that highlights two singular intellects, their disparate approaches to literature and their mutual admiration.
Download or read book Guy Davenport written by Andre Furlani and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Davenport (1927–2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. In Andre Furlani, this twentieth-century American master has finally found an apt critical reader. In this first sustained critical study of Davenport, Furlani elucidates the depths of Davenport's fiction and its poetic precedents, brings a rare understanding to the author's reworking of twentieth-century literature and intellectual history, and offers unusual insight into his compositional technique. Furlani explores key themes across the spectrum of Davenport's fiction: pastoral utopia; twentieth-century dystopia; sexual ethics; the mythologizing of childhood; the inseparability of the archaic and the modern; and a celebration of the union of sophia, eros, and poesia. Whether Davenport's view of art and the cosmos should be called "postmodern" is a question that Furlani considers closely--offering, finally, a new aesthetic for this American original who, in these pages, at last receives the thorough and meticulous attention he has long merited.
Download or read book Shambhala Sun written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pre Christian Teachings of Yeshua written by Lewis Keizer, M.Div., Ph.d. and published by Lewis Keizer. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the extant authentic sayings and teachings of Yeshua remembered in the earliest oral Jesus traditions and collections compiled by his Jewish disciples A.D. 30-50 before they were rendered into Greek, misunderstood, and Christianized in the later Gospels. •Translated in terms of the original Hebrew/Aramaic vocabulary and idioms used by Yeshua •Explained in the context of Second Temple messianic haggadah, Merkabah, prophetic, and wisdom traditions •Organized and presented as a coherent body of exquisite spiritual teaching that was lost and forgotten in Christianity.
Download or read book Jesus the Jew written by Géza Vermès and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This now classic book is a significant corrective to several recent developments in the study of the historical Jesus. In contrast to depictions of Jesus as a wandering Cynic teacher, Geza Vermes offers a portrait based on evidence of charismatic activity in first-century Galilee. Vermes shows how the major New Testament titles of Jesus-prophet, Lord, Messiah, son of man, Son of God-can be understood in this historical context. The result is a description of Jesus that retains its power and its credibility.
Download or read book Did Jesus Christ Exist written by John Ostrowick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a significant movement on Internet at present, heavily supported by the New Atheist movement, which denies that Jesus Christ ever existed. Some of the claims that are made, most notoriously in the first Zeitgeist movie, are demonstrably false. In this book, John Ostrowick explores the academic, mythological, textual, archaeological, scientific, and probabilistic arguments for the existence of Jesus Christ. This book argues that although the evidence for Christ is slim at best, he nonetheless remains the simplest hypothesis to explain the particularly detailed story that we hear in the New Testament Gospels. Although we only have one apparently original document referring to Jesus - the book of Mark - it is still simplest to assume he existed, even if he was merely a man, and only did some of the things described in the New Testament.
Download or read book Finding Jesus in His Prayers written by Dr. H. Stephen Shoemaker and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief but substantive examination of the prayers Jesus prayed, Stephen Shoemaker offers helpful applications of Jesus’ prayers as both a way to better understand Jesus and as a way to use his prayers as a model for our own prayer lives. The book addresses our twin hungers for spirituality and for a deeper grasp of who Jesus was. The author takes seriously the way Jesus prayed and how his prayers open a window to our own experience of God. Included are discussions of: the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13), the Prayer of Thanksgiving amid Life’s Reversals (Matt.11:25-26), the Gethsemane Prayer (Mark 14:36), the Prayers from the Cross (Luke 23:34; Matt. 27:46; Luke 23:46), and prayers from John's Gospel (11:41-42, 12:27, 17:11). The author stays close to the text of the prayers (sometimes including his own translations) but explores their meaning in our lives. He uses Abba rather than the English translation “Father” in order to bring the reader closer to Jesus as he spoke the words of each prayer. A study guide is included to assist leaders in using the book with small groups. “Jesus’ prayers are a challenge and a scandal to the ways our culture wants to pray. His spirituality, found in his prayers, is a profound guide to the soul and a remedy to a culture in search of a soul.” --H. Stephen Shoemaker
Download or read book Jesus Joshua Yeshua of Nazareth Revised and Expanded written by Gordon Clouser and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Jesus? An apocalyptic prophet? An aphoristic sage? The messiah of Jewish expectations? In Jesus, Joshua, Yeshua of Nazareth, Gordon Clouser analyzes the question of the historical Jesus and argues that the realities of Jesus' ministry place him squarely in the forefront of Jewish messianic culture. Presenting conclusions matured by a lifetime of research and personal reflection, Clouser courageously-and effectively-refutes scholarly "new consensus" positions on the historical nature of Jesus. Clouser directly confronts the Jesus Seminar's characterizations of Jesus as an aphoristic sage. He rebuts scholars' attempts to separate beliefs of John the Baptist and Jesus. He contends that the imminent-coming/end-time Son of Man passages are not gospel authors' promotions of Paul's second coming of Jesus, nor in fact are they Jesus' predictions of his own return. In place of conventional thinking, Clouser advances a fresh, yet feasible explanation for the "Son of Man" identification for Jesus. In Jesus, Joshua, Yeshua of Nazareth Gordon Clouser addresses an ages-old controversy with answers that will thoroughly satisfy the thoughtful seeker of historical truth.
Download or read book Jesus was a Feminist written by Leonard J. Swidler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist compellingly presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, and he boldly broke the customs of his day to involve them in his work. Renowned scholar and leader among liberal Catholics Leonard Swidler examines all gospel texts involving women, asserts that women were involved in the writing of two of the gospels, and outlines the importance of women in Jesus' ministry and the creation and development of the early church. He shows how Jesus was a feminist and modern Christians should be too. Click here for the Detailed Table of Contents (pdf)
