Kenneth E. Bailey
Kenneth E. Bailey was an American author, a professor in theology and a linguist.Life
Bailey was born in Bloomington, Illinois. He spent 40 years teaching in Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Cyprus. He has a degree in Arabic and literature, systematic theology and wrote his dissertation in the field of New Testament. He was ordained by the Presbyterian Church. Since 1962 he taught for the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, where he founded the Institute for Middle Eastern New Testament Studies. From 1985 to 1995, he taught at the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research in Jerusalem. He taught at Princeton University and was associate professor of theology in Dubuque, McCormick and Pittsburgh as well as the Fuller Theological Seminary in Los Angeles.
In 1990, Bailey moved to Nicosia, Cyprus and became Canon Theologian of the Anglican Episcopal Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf. In June 1997, he became Canon Theologian of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh of the Episcopal Church. Bailey resided in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
Bailey died on May 23, 2016 at the age of 85.Works
- The Good Shepherd. InterVarsity Press, 2014..
- Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes. InterVarsity Press, 2011..
- Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes. InterVarsity Press, 2008..
- Open Hearts in Bethlehem 2005.
- God Is … Dialogues on the Nature of God. FFM, 2005.
- The Cross and the Prodigal, InterVarsity, 2005..
- Jacob and the Prodigal: How Jesus Retold Israel’s Story, InterVarsity, 2003.
- Finding the Lost: Cultural Keys to Luke 15, Concordia, 1992..
- Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes, Eerdmans, 1980.
