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| Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus | 
 enlarge | Author: Ched Myers
Creator: Obery M., Jr. Hendricks
Publisher: Orbis Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 82223
Format: Special Edition
Media: Paperback
Edition: 20 Anv
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 1570757976
Dewey Decimal Number: 225
EAN: 9781570757976
ASIN: 1570757976
Publication Date: August 27, 2008
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 Rereading the scriptures in there context June 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Most refreshing theological book I have read - opens ones eyes to Jesus's message by showing the context for each action and words of Jesus. Well worth the read - heavy going at times as it is full of substance. Every christian pastor and teacher should read it and it will revitalise their vision of what is the Lord's work.
Movement Christianity February 13, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Binding the Strong Man has become an essential text for people of faith who are asking important questions about how the Bible relates to our own age. This is a challenging read but well worth it. Ched Myers' public teachings are wonderfully engaging and challenging as well. Also look for his articles in Sojourners Magazine on biblical stewardship/Sabbath economics.
 Binding the Strong Man November 27, 1999
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Excellent book - ideas for all who want to understand the Bible from the point of view of Liberation Theology - a gospel for the poor and oppressed. Book is quite technical and very researched but may be difficult for those who do not have Scriptural backgound and higher studies. I was very impressed and felt that many new insights were attainted. I have read the book three times.
Finest reading of a Christian scripture I've encountered November 27, 1999
31 out of 33 found this review helpful
At the end of his preface, Ched Myers writes, "I pray that this study might help Mark to speak, and the reader to have 'ears to hear', the good news that promises yet to overthrow the structures of tion in our world." Although he is nobody's seasoned Greek scholar, the author lives up to his end of the bargain. Myers serves up, in this reading of the earliest gospel, a much-needed focus of radical discipleship -- i.e., Jesus as exemplar of nonviolent resistance to the powers-that-be in his day, and ergo in ours. Myers wrote this groundbreaking work not in the effete ivory tower of liberal intellectualism, but while living in seven intentional faith communities over the course of several years ... and yet, it's a remarkable piece of scholarship. Finally: a serious application of the socio-literary approach to a book of scripture, by an author who beckons us not to worship and adore a tall-steeple bourgeois Jesus, but to follow the itinerant rabbi he really was!
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