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| Event: | The Hidden Gospel: Hearing Jesus With Aramaic Ears |
| Summary: | Travel back to the world of ancient Palestine. Hear the words of Jesus spoken in Aramaic, his native language. Speak those words with your own voice and experience traditional prayer and contemplative practice from those times. Join Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD, author of The Hidden Gospel—Hearing Jesus with Aramaic Ears, in an evening of exploration, recitation, and body prayer.
All the teachings of Jesus are filtered through the language and thought patterns of New Testament Greek. But he actually spoke and taught in a very different language—Aramaic. If we consider his likely original words and reflect deeply on them, a figure emerges from the shadows who is inspiring, mystical and significantly different from that of much traditional teaching. Neil Douglas-Klotz, scholar, author and musician, has over the last twenty years brought this dimension of Jesus to light through his interpretive translations based on the Syriac Peshitta version of the Gospels, as well as related texts like the Gospel of Thomas. He brings these teachings into experiential form by re-creating traditional prayer and contemplative methods known throughout the Middle East for millenia. During this evening at Numina, he will reflect on his recent work and share selected translations and body prayer related to it. |
| Admission: |
$15-25 Donation at the door |
| Date & Time: |
July 30, 2010 7:30 pm |
| Location: | Church of the Incarnation |
| Event Flyer: | Flyer |
| More Information: | Dr Neil Douglas-Klotz directs the Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning (www.eial.org) in Edinburgh, Scotland and co-founded the Edinburgh International festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace, now in its eighth year. He is the past chair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion and has published several books on Middle Eastern spirituality and peace, including Prayers of the Cosmos (1990), Desert Wisdom (1995), The Hidden Gospel (1999), The Genesis Meditations (2003), The Sufi Book of Life (2005), Blessings of the Cosmos (2006) and The Tent of Abraham (2006, with Sr. Joan Chittister and Rabbi Arthur Waskow). In 2005 he was awarded the Kessler-Keener Foundation Peacemaker of the Year award for his work in Middle Eastern peacemaking. Information about his work internationally can be found at the website of the Abwoon Resource Center, www.abwoon.com. |