The Cross and the Prodigal


 

I ordered this book while I was at Annual Conference, it was waiting for me when I returned home and I couldn’t put it down. I read it in a couple of days and I was pleased with the insight form a Jewish perspective. It appears in 2008 that people are starting to return to the Jewish roots of the Bible and what a difference it makes in light of interpreting Scripture. There was a recent article on the things that would change the world in soon coming years and a return to the Jewishness of Jesus was in the top ten. I highly recommend this book.

This book was honored in 2006 as The Years Best Book for Preachers by Preaching Magazine. Over the years, people have preached and viewed this text in scripture as “The Prodigal Son” and they have focus on what the son did wrong. In actuality this story is about two lost sons and a loving Father. The Author of this book Draws on his extensive knowledge of both the New Testament and Middle Eastern culture, Bailey presents an interpretation of this parable from a Middle Eastern perspective. In the book Bailey highlights the underlying tensions between law and love, servanthood and sonship, honor and forgiveness. 
Ronnie

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