Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Global crisis and the practice of Biblical studies. Introduction : political exegesis for a new day / Bruce Worthington -- Reading the Bible with the poor : building a social movement, led by the poor, as a united social force / Liz Theoharis and Willie Baptist -- Occupying my desk / Neil Elliott -- Solidarity! : conditions apply / Christina Petterson -- Part II. Global crisis and the First Testament. On the feasibility of subsistence economics / Roland Boer -- Occupying the Temple in ancient Judah : resisting debt abuses, from Jerusalem to Wall Street / Matthew J.M. Coomber -- The global crisis of debt in context : biblical and postcolonial reflections on the ideology of empire / Robert Wafawanaka -- Food, power, and ecological hermeneutics : reading Joseph with Monsanto / Gregory P. Fewster -- Part III. Global crisis and the Second Testament. Homelessness, neoliberalism, and Jesus' "decision" to go rogue : an analysis of Matthew 4:12-25 / Robert J. Myles -- Romans 13:1-7 : with an eye to global capital / Bruce Worthington -- Occupy Solomon's portico : on the community of goods in the longue durée / Jonathan Bernier -- On trying to praise the mutilated world : reading Revelation in the midst of ecological crisis / Ryan L. Hansen -- Why bother with biblical studies? / Richard Horsley.