The Hidden Gospel: Illuminating the Spiritual Message of the Aramaic Jesus (Wisdom of the Aramaic Jesus)

“This book is a gift to all those wanting to enter into the spirit of the historical Jesus and the mystic Christ.By honoring the people of Jesus’s land and their poetic language, it brings a needed balance to the historical Jesus movement.” -Matthew Fox, author of Original BlessingThe Hidden Gospel is in plain sight.We find it in Jesus’s familiar sayings translated from Aramaic, the Middle Eastern language he actually spoke.Neil Douglas-Klotz’s lucid commentary guides us in applying Jesus’s ancient wisdom to our lives today. The Hidden Gospel explores the sometimes simple yet radical differences that reveal the spirituality behind the sayings of Jesus from an Aramaic viewpoint.The differences stem from the nature of Middle Eastern languages themselves as well as the worldview behind them-that is, the ways in which they divide and make sense of reality.Each chapter includes meditative exercises and body prayers so that we may directly experience the life-changing spiritual practice of J