Economics and Empire in the Roman World
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Economics and Empire in the Roman World

Guide to the Bible and Economics, Volume 2

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Economics and Empire in the Roman World

Guide to the Bible and Economics, Volume 2

About this book

Over the past few decades the study of biblical economics has developed into an important subfield of biblical studies. This subfield uses textual and archaeological evidence to uncover the economic realities behind biblical literature, resulting in greater understandings of the lives and possible intentions of those individuals and communities that composed these religious texts, and also of their potential relevance (or lack thereof) to the communities that continue to receive them. Economics and Empire in the Roman World has brought together eight scholars of biblical economics to create a repository of what is understood about the socioeconomic realities of those who penned and first received what were to become the Christian scriptures. In addition to serving the research and teaching interests of biblical scholars, this volume has also been created for the benefit of economic historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contributors
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1. Biblical Economics as an Essential Tool for Biblical Studies1
  6. 2. Economic Relationships Found in the Worlds of the Bible14
  7. 3. The Political Economic Project of Jesus vs. the Roman Imperial Order
  8. 4. Imaginings of Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day
  9. 5. Women and Economics in the Roman World
  10. 6. Urban Economy and Economics Relationships in the Roman Empire and Pauline Assemblies
  11. 7. An Alternative Society of Local Communities among Peoples Subject to the Roman Empire
  12. 8. Apocalypse in Response to Roman Economic Ideology