{"id":54588,"date":"2016-06-01T15:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_kenneth_bailey_rip_the_scholar_who_made_jesus_middle_eastern_again\/"},"modified":"2016-06-01T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:01:22","slug":"ct_kenneth_bailey_rip_the_scholar_who_made_jesus_middle_eastern_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54588","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Kenneth Bailey RIP, the Scholar Who Made Jesus Middle Eastern Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth E. Bailey, the scholar who introduced evangelicals to Middle Eastern culture and history, died [on] Monday [May23]&#8230;at age 85.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey gave Western readers \u201cthe eyes to see\u201d\u009d the deeper significance of Jesus\u2019 life and stories by placing them in the cultural context of the Middle East, publishing books like Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes and Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes, a 2012 CT Book Awards winner.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey was the \u201cpremier cultural interpreter of the life of Jesus,\u201d\u009d according to Wheaton College New Testament professor Gary Burge. Bailey\u2019s insights stemmed from his own childhood in Egypt and a 40-year career studying and teaching in Egypt, Cyprus, Israel, and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2016\/may\/middle-east-expert-kenneth-e-bailey-dies.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth E. Bailey, the scholar who introduced evangelicals to Middle Eastern culture and history, died [on] Monday [May23]&#8230;at age 85. Bailey gave Western readers \u201cthe eyes to see\u201d\u009d the deeper significance of Jesus\u2019 life and stories by placing them in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54588\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,92,162,438,203,184,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-books","category-christology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-middle-east","category-parish-ministry","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}