Kenneth E. Bailey.
Kenneth E. Bailey, 85, research scholar, author, Presbyterian
career missionary and lecturer in Middle Eastern New Testament studies,
May 23, 2016, in Grove City, Pennsylvania. Bailey was ordained in the
Presbyterian Church (USA). He spent forty years (1955-1995) living and
teaching in seminaries and institutes in Egypt, Lebanon, Jerusalem, and
Cyprus. For twenty of those years he taught at the Near East School of
Theology in Beirut where he also founded the Institute for Middle
Eastern New Testament Studies. From 1985 to 1995 he was on the faculty
of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem. In 1990 he accepted the
additional responsibility of canon theologian for the Anglican Diocese
of Cyprus and the Gulf. He is the author of Jesus Through Middle Eastern
Eye: Cultural Studies in the Gospels (2008) and The Good Shepherd: A
Thousand Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament (2014).
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DOI: 10.1177/2396939316652355
