Liberating biblical study
Subtitle: scholarship, art, and action in honor of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice
By: edited by Laurel Dykstra and Ched Myers
Contributors: Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice
Series: The Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice series -- v. 1; Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice series -- v. 1
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781610974011
Subjects: Bible; Justice; Criticism, interpretation; Christianity and justice; Biblical teaching; Biblical Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Top one hundred books on the Bible and social justice, recommended by the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice": p. 223-245.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ched Myers; title: Part II. The Hebrew Bible; title: Section 1. Israel emerges; title: ch. 1. Early Israel as an anti-imperial community / Norman K. Gottwald; title: ch. 2. In the Bible there's no middle class / Marvin L. Chaney; title: ch. 3. God births a people / Daniel Erlander; title: ch. 4. The screaming Habiru / Los Angeles Catholic Worker; title: Section 2. Exodus; title: ch. 5. "And they shall know that I am YHWH!" : the P Recasting of the plague narratives in Exodus 7-11 / Randall C. Bailey; title: ch. 6. Riffraff, bedbugs, and signs : reading the plague narratives from Vancouver's downtown eastside / Laurel Dykstra; title: ch. 7. This time / Ricardo Levins Morales, Aurora Levins Morales; title: Section 3. Prophets of environmental justice; title: ch. 8. Reflections on creation and the prophet Hosea / Gale A. Yee; title: ch. 9. A land narrative for eco-justice / Andrea Ferich; title: ch. 10. Speaking truth to power : banner hang at the Ford auto show / Kate Berrigan; title: Part II. Jesus and the Gospels; title: Section 4. Jubilee; title: ch. 11. Intimation of the year of jubilee in the parable of the workers in the vineyard / Herman Waetjen; title: ch. 12. Jubilee activism : a living vision of hope / Jennifer Henry; title: ch. 13. Jubilee / Andy Macpherson and James Loney; title: Section 5. Writin' is fightin'; title: ch. 14. Guerilla exegesis : "struggle" as a scholarly vocation : a post-modern approach to African-American biblical interpretation / Obery M. Hendricks Jr.; title: ch. 15. In our bones is a knowing / M. Carmen Lane; title: ch. 16. Jesus ABCs / Gabe Thirlwall; title: Section 6. center and margin; title: ch. 17. The shape of power and political-economy in Herodian Galilee / Douglas E. Oakman; title: ch. 18. El buen coyote / Bob Ekblad; title: ch. 19. Tierra Nueva mural / Chris Hoke, Troy Terpstra; title: Part III. Epistles; title: Section 7. the divince economy of grace; title: ch. 20. Greed and structual sin : reflections on Romans and the global economy / Elsa Tamez; title: ch. 21. Paul's call to God's economy / A. Katherine Grieb; title: ch. 22. The passion of the downtown eastside / Bud Osborn; title: Section 8. Sanctuary; title: ch. 23. Refugees, resident aliens, and the church as counter-culture / John H. Elliott; title: ch. 24. "Do not neglect to show hospitality" : sanctuary and immigrant justice / Alexia Salvatierra; title: ch. 25. The path to end war / Rodney Watson Jr., James Lloyd; title: The top one hundred books on the Bible and justice / Laurel Dykstra.