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This book examines the relationships Jesus encountered with wood (stable, manger, boats, tables, plows, carpentry, rod and staff etc.). This shows Jesus in a new new perspectives.
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Love Carved in Wood is a series of vignettes in the everyday life of Jesus. It moves from His birth in a manger to His death on a wooden cross and beyond. Born into a carpenter household, no doubt He knew the trade well.
Because we keep making new discoveries, unearthing ancient meanings of obscure expressions, this earthy approach is unique amidst the numerous studies of the life of Jesus. The fifteen chapters are practical everyday experiences that translate into unusual insights into the Man of Galilee. You will encounter his unusual birth, his probable learned trade as a carpenter, his many social gatherings (tables and chairs) where He was often at risk.
He fell asleep in a fishing boat during an awesome storm, and knew the value of a wooden plow share as well as the rod and staff of a shepherd. He also sat at a well but had no oaken bucket with which to draw water and he rode into Jerusalem tromping on palm branches. He met His death on a wooden cross and after His resurrection he made a fire on the beach to feed his fishermen disciples who had caught nothing all night.
You'll enjoy the casual nature of this book as well as its insights whether a biblical scholar or a casual bystander, young or not so young.
Excerpt
Whenever I read the marvelous manger story, I think of a wooden crib, a rickety one at that, filled with soft, fragrant hay. Why? Because of my childhood experiences on the farm. And also because this is the way so many of us have imagined that night long ago.
There is no reason the manger should have been made of wood, or that the stable was a shed. In fact, ancient traditions suggest that the stable may have been a cave in the hills near Bethlehem, the manger hewn out of Judean stone. When visiting the Holy Land for the first time, I was somewhat disappointed when our guide took us into the Grotto of the Nativity. Marking this traditional birthplace of our Lord is a silver star inscribed in Latin: HERE OF THE VIRGIN MARY CHRIST WAS BORN. Maybe. Maybe not . . .
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