What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts

by Anna Wierzbicka

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In this highly interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts new light on the words of Jesus by taking her well-known semantic theory of "universal human concepts"- concepts which are intuitively understandable and self-explanatory across languages-and bringing it to bear on Jesus' parables and the Sermon on the Mount. Her approach results in strikingly novel interpretations of the Gospels. Written in dialogue with other biblical commentators, What Did Jesus Mean? is both scholarly rigorous yet accessible.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195137337

ISBN13:9780195137330

Release Date:April 2001

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:528 Pages

Weight:1.68 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Language Arts Religion Religion & Spirituality

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