The Aramaic Jesus Book of Days

Forty Days of Contemplation and Revelation

Neil Douglas-Klotz, Neil Douglas-Klotz

• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781642970593
• eBook ISBN: 9781612834986

“The Aramaic translations of Klotz cut through the rote and bring us to the deeper meanings of Jesus’s teaching that can still touch our hearts, move our souls, and ignite our action.”—Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing
 
Neil Douglas-Klotz, bestselling author of Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus, offers new translations from Jesus’s native language in the form of a meditation a day, an oracle, or a guide for a forty-day retreat. Through expansions of Aramaic’s multiple meanings as well as guided contemplations, The Aramaic Jesus Book of Days provides a guide to transformation through the way of the prophet. It 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 you’re facing 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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• A Quick Start Guide
• Introduction
• Chapter One: The Doorway of Anxiety
• Chapter Two: Your Real Home
• Chapter Three: The Greatest Gift to a Friend
• Chapter Four: Fresh Food Delivered from Soul to Self
• Chapter Five: Heart of Possibility
• Chapter Six: What Could Be More Spacious?
• Chapter Seven: A Bigger Heart-Power
• Chapter Eight: Enlightenment and Endarkenment: Conjoined Twins
• Chapter Nine: Simply Less Self
• Chapter Ten: Who Is Saying “I Can’t”?
• Chapter Eleven: Even More Soul Food
• Chapter Twelve: The Real Source of Hunger and Thirst
• Chapter Thirteen: Involuntary Love
• Chapter Fourteen: Seeing Life with a Complete Heart
• Chapter Fifteen: Gently Flows the Water of Peace
• Chapter Sixteen: Begin Again in a Childlike Light
• Chapter Seventeen: A Cloudy Eye
• Chapter Eighteen: Breathing Differently
• Chapter Nineteen: New Wine in Old Wineskins
• Chapter Twenty: A Rest Stop Between Here and There
• Chapter Twenty-One: Rising Out of the Bottomless Pit
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Tied Up, Released
• Chapter Twenty-Three: What Could Be Softer?
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Offer It All Up
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Knocking on the Door of the Heart
• Chapter Twenty-Six: Untangling
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: Checked Out? Recheck In!
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Losing and Finding Your Self
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: Bad Rep or Sparkling Profile
• Chapter Thirty: An Eyeful of Sun
• Chapter Thirty-One: Wake-up Call: Being Empty, Being Full
• Chapter Thirty-Two: Rejoice, Feel Free: Let Your Heart Choose Today
• Chapter Thirty-Three: Shining City on a Mountain of Fire
• Chapter Thirty-Four: Wake-up Call: Tears and Laughter
• Chapter Thirty-Five: Moving On—For Inner Honesty and Outer Justice
• Chapter Thirty-Six: Finding the Rhythm of Rapport
• Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Lamp Kindled in Your Flesh
• Chapter Thirty-Eight: Tomorrow Means Things Depart
• Chapter Thirty-Nine: Open Way or Hidden Way, Straight or Zigzag?
• Chapter Forty: Let Light Shine from the Beginning—of You!
• Appendix A: Some General Retreat Advice
• Appendix B: A Retreat with the Aramaic Prayer (the “Lord’s Prayer”)
• Appendix C: A Retreat with the Aramaic Beatitudes
• Selected Bibliography
• Scripture Index
• Index
• My Background
• Notes/Reflections
• About the Author
• Back Cover