THE DHARMA OF JESUS

This collection of essays by the late Indian New Testament scholar Soares-Prabhu spans two decades of work, from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, when the professor was tragically killed in an accident. The overarching theme is Jesus' message of liberation for the oppressed, including the Dalits at the bottom of India's caste system. For Soares-Prabhu, Jesus' "dharma" encompasses not just his oral teaching, but "the complex of relationships that one thing has with every other thing." The essays are highly academic, as most originally appeared in journals of biblical hermeneutics and scholarship. But readers who are interested in the work of one of India's great biblical scholars and liberation theologians will want to own this collection, available for the first time outside of India. (May)