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May 28, 2025
Please join us and our guest, Neil Douglas-Klotz, for a show on The Aramaic Jesus Book of Days: 40 Days of Contemplation and Revelation. Through expansions of Aramaic's multiple meanings as well as guided contemplations, The Aramaic Jesus Book of Days shows how the deepest teachings of Jesus address contemporary challenges, such as our relationships with nature and each other, as well as the purpose of life itself. In short chapters, the book takes up life themes facing contemporary readers and offers meditations to address them. Each chapter is introduced with a short saying and keyword of Jesus, heard with "Aramaic ears," and then proceeds to show how this applies to a life issue today. This book offers a unique perspective on Jesus's teachings that can help you to connect with them on a deeper level and live a more authentic, fulfilling, and compassionate life. Neil shares personal relevance about how the words of Aramaic Jesus’s teachings have changed his own life—his sense of love, purpose, and relationships—and more importantly, how they can heal and enliven the daily life of everyone.
Neil is an internationally known scholar in the fields connecting religious studies (comparative Semitic hermeneutics) and psychology as well as a poet and musician. He is the author of Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus, Prayers of the Cosmos, Desert Wisdom, The Hidden Gospel, and The Genesis Meditations and coauthor of The Tent of Abraham with Sister Joan Chittister and Rabbi Arthur Waskow. He is the past chair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion and is active in various international colloquia and conferences dedicated to peace and spirituality. Learn more at https://abwoon.org.
