Join Us For Our June Book Club

During the Coronavirus lockdown our Book Club will be meeting via Zoom. See details below.

Our June Book Club discussion will be dedicated to Short Stories By Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Amy Jill-Levine.

From the publisher’s description:

In this wise, entertaining, and educational book, Amy-Jill Levine offers a fresh, timely reinterpretation of Jesus’ narratives. In Short Stories by Jesus, she analyzes these “problems with parables,” taking readers back in time to understand how their original Jewish audience understood them. Levine reveals the parables’ connections to first-century economic and agricultural life, social customs and morality, Jewish scriptures and Roman culture. With this revitalized understanding, she interprets these moving stories for the contemporary reader, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about us—and when read rightly, still challenge and provoke us two thousand years later.

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