The Logia of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus

Jesus was a street preacher who taught by way of sayings. The Logia of Yeshua reintroduces us to this teacher, whose succinct and powerful words ring anew in this fine new translation that draws from Greek texts. The term logion (plural logia) is from the Greek, for "saying". Each of the 105 logia that make up this collection is aphoristic, metaphoric, self-contained, memorable, and infinitely quotable. Antedating the Gospels, the logia were written down by Jesus' followers while he was still lived or shortly after he died. At first glance, these sayings are simplicity itself, and yet they contain paradoxes, like Zen koans or Sufi stories. They startle us and shake our conception about who Jesus was and what he might have hoped to accomplish. The Logia of Yeshua is the Sayings Gospel: through the immediacy of direct quotation, we gain a clear idea of the living teacher.