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

Wierzbicka, Anna

ISBN 10: 0195137337 / ISBN 13: 9780195137330

Published by Oxford University Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What did Jesus Mean?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195137337
• ISBN 13: 9780195137330
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Anna Wierzbicka is at Australian National University.