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.
About the author
Matthew J. M. Coomber is professor of biblical studies and theology at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, and an Episcopal priest. His research focuses on how biblical texts that challenge systemic poverty might provide tools for confronting modern injustice. His publications include Bible and Justice (2011) and The Common Good: A Biblical Ethos against Poverty (forthcoming). He is also co-editor of Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha (2014) and editor of the six-volume Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series Guide to the Bible and Economics (Cascade).
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