For I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781625640468)

In the first century, endemic food shortages left 25 percent of the population below subsistence level and another 30 percent at risk of slipping below subsistence. In the face of such serious food shortages, the Gospel of Matthew advocates for a society in which all people can have access to sufficient food. Matthew critiques first-century practices and attitudes of both aristocrats and peasants that helped or hindered that goal. It does this by depicting Jesus teaching and performing positive practices that provided the Matthean community with an example to emulate, as well as condemning some negative practices and attitudes. For I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food provides a pragmatic lens and a new descriptive paradigm of food access in the first century. The perspective and model are useful for analyzing passages concerned with life-and-death issues of the Matthean community--or situations for any other Christian community, past or present. Should not every person have enough food to sustain physical life?

Author: Carol B. Wilson
ISBN-10: 1625640463
ISBN-13: 9781625640468
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2014
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d