Important ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of world hunger and put in the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global austerity measures and welfare. This book explores the dynamics of hunger and its causation in ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman world.
Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers - Smith, Hobbes, Grotius, Malthus, Locke - - read the Bible.
Irony is a rhetorical and literary device for revealing "what is hidden behind what is seen." This book provides a history of different definitions of irony, from Aristophanes to Booth; discusses the constitutive formal elements of irony and the functions of irony; and then studies particular aspects of the Matthean Passion Narrative.
Rhetorical Cosmology and Political Theology in the Book of Revelation
Argues that cosmology is a central focus in John's Apocalypse, but not in the sense that John envisions a stable cosmos. Rather, John employs cosmological themes for persuasive purposes that include a critique of Roman imperial cultic discourse.
Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "women's roles" in the Roman world, this title explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C E.
In this volume, which concludes John W. Rettig's translation of St. Augustine's Tractates on the Gospel of John, Augustine applies his keen insight and powers of rhetoric to the sacred text, drawing the audience into an intimate contemplation of Jesus through the course of his Passion, Death, and Resurrection. Augustine clarifies the meaning of ......
This is the first complete translation in English of Oecumenius's commentary, which is the first known Greek commentary on the book of Revelation. Written in the sixth century but discovered only at the beginning of the twentieth, it presents a fascinating view of a writer who strove to be faithful to the teaching of the church while at the same ......
Status Reversals and Hidden Transcripts in the Gospel of Luke
James C Scott's discussion of "hidden transcripts" of defiance or resistance among subordinate groups has been taken up in suggestive ways by scholars who claim to detect elements of defiant transcripts in or behind Paul's letters. This book uses Scott's theory to explain tensions within the narrative of the Gospel of Luke.
Revisiting the Principalities and Powers in the Pauline Letters
The conception of "powers" and "principalities" in Paul's thought and that of his successors has been amply explored - but how was this conception expressed? The author traces the distinct function of "power-practices" in each of Paul's letters and draws comparisons with traditional African religious practices.
