By Bread Alone: The Bible Through the Eyes of the Hungry - Softcover

McGinn, Sheila E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451465505 ISBN 13: 9781451465501

Verlag: Fortress Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

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. These concerns have not always affected the way the biblical texts themselves have been read, however. Here, inspired by calls, from Dorothee Solle and Kathleen O'Connor, biblical scholars apply a "hermeneutics of hunger" to the Bible, taking readings of texts from the Old and New Testaments alike on the premise that human hunger and want are urgent concerns that rightly shape the work of interpretation. Too often, however, as the authors show, biblical texts--like Jesus' well known words that humans do not live "by bread alone"--have been used to marginalize such concerns within religious communities. Their essays here explore the dynamics of hunger and its causation in ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman world and challenge readers to take seriously the centrality of hunger concerns in the Bible.

Biografía del autor:

Sheila E. McGinn is professor and chair in the department of theology and religious studies at John Carroll University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on early Christian literature and feminist interpretation.

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• Verlag: Fortress Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1451465505
• ISBN 13: 9781451465501
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270
• Herausgeber: Ngan Lai Ling Elizabeth, Pilarski Ahida Calderson