Overview

Sermons and commentaries and devotional writings all attest to the importance of keeping fresh perspective on even timeless teachings. Teacher's Teachings keeps perspective fresh by offering a new selection and arrangement and translation of Jesus' words: here are teachings readers have always heard, as they've never been heard. Teacher's Teachings includes only teachings (no birth, passion, miracle, or other narratives), but it includes teachings from noncanonical gospels alongside teachings from the canonical gospels, and it translates them with more fidelity to the original language than to King James, all in order to affirm that the teachings of Jesus have value not because they are old but because they are always new.

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""H. L. Hix has written an engaging collection that reveals there is more to be said than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John imagined about rejecting 'the rejection of those who reject.' This arresting collection of brilliant poems offers with remarkable lyricism a searing view of poetical language turning an intimate story of timeless religious teachings into relentlessly welcomed news."" --Harold J. Recinos, author of Words Chosen for the Wall ""What a splendid gem. Shorter in length than any of the canonical gospels, it delivers teachings attributed to Jesus with spare precision and contemporary currency. The introduction asks of the reader the attention for a finely framed pilgrimage. Then the teachings, situated sparsely upon the page, invite a skinny dip into words recognizable for their good news, arriving with brisk cracks of word smithing. Coming up for air after the shock, refreshed, alive."" --Mary Keller, senior lecturer of philosophy and religious studies, University of Wyoming ""'I have assembled a set of teachings, ' Hix begins in his new collection. Exactly what I want, as a collector of Hix's books. I have a clump of them on my bookshelves. I look to him for direction in form and subject matter. Here he 'disemvowels' the good words of the gospel to 'gdwd, ' while explaining the differentiation of messenger and message, and salting what we read in the Bible from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."" --Diane Glancy, author of Quadrille: Christianity and the Early New England Indians

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H. L. Hix is a professor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department of the University of Wyoming. His recent books include Moral Tales and American Outrage.

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