Anna Wierzbicka

Anna Wierzbicka, "What Did Jesus Mean?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts"
Oxford University Press | 2001 | ISBN: 0195137329 | 528 pages | PDF | 8,5 MB

This interdisciplinary work aims to cast light on the words of Jesus by taking the author's 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 novel interpretations of the Gospels.