Jesus Before God: The Prayer Life of the Historical Jesus

This book presents an astonishing new way of prayer based on the latest biblical research. New Testament scholar and minister Hal Taussig answers two vital but unexplored questions: How did Jesus--the Jesus of history--really pray? What does his prayer life teach us about how to pray today?

Combining a scholar's skills with a poet's voice, Hal Taussig reveals new and unexpected ways of prayer--prayer as unsettling today as it was to Jesus' audience two thousand years ago. The wa…