Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis :  Political Exegesis for a New Day / 
 Political exegesis for a new day 
Bruce Worthington, editor. 
 - ix, 363 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical  references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781451482867 1451482868 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible--Hermeneutics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church and social problems--Biblical teaching.<br/>Church and the world--Biblical teaching.<br/>Christianity and politics--Biblical teaching.<br/>Church and social problems--Biblical teaching.<br/>Church and the world--Biblical teaching.<br/>Christianity and politics--Biblical teaching.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS476  / .R4255 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>220.6  / W933