What Did Jesus Say When They Asked Him How to Pray?: The Words and the History of the Lord's Prayer - Paperback

by John Ohst (Author)

The first section of the book is a word study: to examine the lexical definitions of the terms that Jesus used in the Lord's Prayer; to search for synonyms to expand the understanding of the words; to explore the words' denotations and connotations.



The second section goes into the history of the prayer's linguistic development. The Lord's Prayer changed: from one Gospel writer to another; from one language to another; from one century to another, as the English language changed.

Author Biography

John Ohst is Assistant Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Canton. He earned his BA in religion from Susquehanna University and later earned a degree in linguistics from San Diego State University. He also spent time teaching college English courses in communication skills, ESL, and children's literature. He has written several religious meditations and poems, and for the past ten years he has been a part of a local writer's group.