Download or read book What did Jesus Mean? written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-05 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.