Poverty, wealth, and empire
Subtitle: Jesus and postcolonial criticism
By: Michael J. Sandford
Series: New Testament monographs -- 35; New Testament monographs -- 35.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781909697270
Subjects: Bible and politics; Nonviolence; Bible; Wealth; Criticism, interpretation; Politics in the Bible; Christianity; Postcolonial criticism of sacred works; Postcolonial criticism; Biblical teaching; Poverty; Political and social views; Imperialism
Other titles: Jesus and postcolonial criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-200) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The socioeconomic context of the gospels; title: Poverty, wealth, and social change : resistance and conservatism in Jesus' world; title: Interpreting 'the poor' in western biblical scholarship : an ideological critique; title: 'Inclusive' Jesus : xenophobia at the Nazareth synagogue in postcolonial perspective; title: Steppin' outa Babylon : Jesus, empire, and cultural resistance, or, what the Rastafari Movement can tell us about the Jesus Movement; title: The paradox of the nonviolent Jesus; title: Concluding remarks.