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Over the past few decades biblical economics has developed into an important subfield of biblical studies. Through examining the economic realities that lay behind Hebrew biblical texts and archaeological findings, biblical economics has led to greater understandings of the cultures and experiences of ancient Hebrew communities, the legal and religious texts they produced, and of how those texts may or may not relate to the experiences of communities who continue to receive them, today. Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East has brought together ten scholars of biblical economics and one economic anthropologist to create a repository of what is understood about the economic realities of Southwest Asia in the late second and first millennia BCE. In addition to furthering the research and teaching interests of biblical scholars, this volume has also been created for the benefit of economic historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.

Cascade Books

Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series

Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East: Guide to the Bible and Economics, Volume 1

Ched Myers

Elaine Enns

Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent. Violations which inhabit every intersection of settler and Indigenous worlds, past and present. Wounds inextricably woven into the fabric of our personal and political lives. And it argues we can heal those wounds through the inward and outward journey of decolonization.

The authors write as, and for, settlers on this journey, exploring the places, peoples, and spirits that have formed (and deformed) us. They look at issues of Indigenous justice and settler "response-ability" through the lens of Elaine's Mennonite family narrative, tracing Landlines, Bloodlines, and Songlines like a braided river. From Ukrainian steppes to Canadian prairies to California chaparral, they examine her forebearers' immigrant travails and trauma, settler unknowing and complicity, and traditions of resilience and conscience. And they invite readers to do the same. 

Part memoir, part social, historical, and theological analysis, and part practical workbook, this process invites settler Christians (and other people of faith) into a discipleship of decolonization. How are our histories, landscapes, and communities haunted by continuing Indigenous dispossession? How do we transform our colonizing self-perceptions, lifeways, and structures? And how might we practice restorative solidarity with Indigenous communities today?

Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization

Norman K. Gottwald

PART 1: EXAMINING TEXTS
1. Social Drama in the Psalms of Individual Lament
2. Kingship in the Book of Psalms 
3. Abusing the Bible: The Case of Deuteronomy 15
4. Do not Fear What They Fear: A Post-9/11 Reflection(Isaiah 8:11-15)
5. The Expropriated and the Expropriators in Nehemiah 5
6. How Do Extrabiblical Sociopolitical Data Illuminate Obscure Biblical Texts? The Case of Ecclesiastes 5:8-9 [Heb. 5:7-8]
7. On the Alleged Wisdom of Kings: An Application of Adorno's Immanent Criticism to Ecclesiastes

PART 2: ENGAGING PRACTICES
8. Framing Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary: A Student Self Inventory on Biblical Hermeneutics
9. Theological Education as a Theory-Praxis Loop: Situating the Book of Joshua in a Cultural, Social Ethical, and Theological Matrix
10. The Bible as Nurturer of Passive and Active Worldviews
11. Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse
12. On Framing Elections: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
13. Values and Economic Structures

Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume Three

CONTENTS

PART 1: THE ORIGINS OF ANCIENT ISRAEL
Early Israel as an Anti-Imperial Community
The Origins of Israel as a Textual
Models for Envisioning Early Israel
Triumphalist versus Anti-Triumphalist Versions of Early Israel: A Response to Articles by Lemche and Dever
Historical Description versus Historical Representation and Symbol
The Interplay of Religion and Ethnicity in Ancient Israel
Proto-Globalization and Proto-Secularization in Ancient Israel
Revisiting the Tribes of Yahweh after Twenty-five Years

PART 2: THE POLITICS OF ANCIENT ISRAEL
Religion and Politics: Early Israel and Judaism
The Puzzling Politics of Ancient Israel
The Role of Biblical Politics in Contextual Theologies

PART 3: REVIEW AND REFLECTIONS
Forward to Jeremy Young, The Violence of God and the War on Terror
Reflections on R. S. Sugirtharajah's Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism. Contesting the Interpretations and The Bible and the Third Way: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
Review of Stephen L. Cook, The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism
Review of Marty E. Stevens, Temples, Tithes, and Taxes: The Temple and the Economic Life of Ancient Israel
Review of Philip R. Davies, The Origins of Biblical Israel
Panel Presentation on Joshua A. Berman, Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought

Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume Two

CONTENTS

PART 1: METHODS, MODELS, AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES
What Does Sociology Have to Do with The Bible?
The Bible and Economic Ethics
Social Class as an Analytic and Hermeneutical Category in Biblical Studies
Social Class and Ideology in Isaiah 40-55: An Eagletonian Reading
Ideology and Ideologies in Israelite Prophecy
Periodization, Interactive Power Networks, and Teleogical Constraints in Hebrew Bible Studies
Icelandic and Israelite Beginnings: A Comparative Probe
Structure and Origin of the Early Israelite and Iroquois "Confederacies"
PART 2: TRIBUTES TO COLLEAGUES
James Muilenburg: Superlative Teacher
David Jobling: Fearless Frontiersman 
Marvin L. Chaney, Master Social Critic
Jack Elliott: Breacher of Boundaries

Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume One

Various authors

Liberating Biblical Study is a unique collaboration of pioneering biblical scholars, social-change activists, and movement-based artists. Well known and unknown, veterans and newcomers, these diverse practitioners of justice engage in a lively and critical conversation at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, and street. The book is divided into eight sections; in each, a scholar, activist, and artist explore the justice issues related to a biblical text or idea, such as exodus, creation, jubilee, and sanctuary. Beyond the emerging themes (e. g. , empire, resistance movements, identity, race, gender, and economics), the book raises essential questions at another level: What is the role of art in social-change movements? How can scholars be accountable beyond the academy, and activists encouraged to study? How are resistance movements nurtured and sustained? This volume is an accessible invitation to action that will appeal to all who love and strive for justice--whatever their discipline, and whatever their familiarity with the Bible, scholarship, art, and activist communities.

Liberating Biblical Study: Scholarship, Art, and Action in Honor of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice

Matthew J. M. Coomber, series editor



The Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series produces scholarship for the academy, churches and seminaries, and activist communities so as to fulfill The Center's mission to connect biblically informed activists and justice-oriented scholars.



CENTER AND LIBRARY FOR THE BIBLE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE SERIES

Laurel Dykstra and Ched Myers, editors

Liberating Biblical Study

Scholarship, Art, and Action in Honor of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice

Norman K. Gottwald

Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible

3 volumes

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Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series - Die Buchreihe

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