Feeling Uncomfortable with Zacchaeus
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Using Amy-Jill Levine's book “Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi” I want to retell the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus a couple of different ways to open up the option of more than one way of reading a these stories as parable. · How do we feel when we read this story? · Do we read verse 8 in the future tense, as something he will do in response to Jesus wanting to come to dinner, or in the present tense as a defence of against the grumbling. Or both? The Greek goes either way. · What echoes of other stories in Luke do we hear? · What uncomfortable questions does it ask of us? You can read the notes here
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Using Amy-Jill Levine's book “Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi” I want to retell the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus a couple of different ways to open up the option of more than one way of reading a these stories as parable. · How do we feel when we read this story? · Do we read verse 8 in the future tense, as something he will do in response to Jesus wanting to come to dinner, o...
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