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Like the first volume in this series (WealthWatch, Pickwick, 2011) this book attempts to do two things: (a) examine the primary socioeconomic motifs in the Bible from a comparative intertextual perspective, and (b) trace the trajectory formed by these motifs through Tanak into early Jewish and Nazarene texts. Where WealthWatch focuses on Torah, WealthWarn focuses on the single largest section of the Bible--the Prophets. Where the ancient Near Eastern texts surveyed in WealthWatch include the Epic of Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, and the Epic of Erra, the texts examined here include Inanna's Descent,…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2019Wipf & Stock Publishers · 318 pages · 9781532638138
- Other · English · 2019Wipf & Stock Publishers · 318 pages · 9781532638145
- Other · English · 2019Wipf & Stock Publishers · 318 pages · 9781532638121
Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc.Criticism, interpretationSocial justiceReligious aspectsEconomics in the BibleBible