Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer: First-Century Debt and Jesus' Intentions by Oakman, Douglas E.

Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781625647931)

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Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer: First-Century Debt and Jesus' Intentions by Oakman, Douglas E.

Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer

$23.00
Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer: First-Century Debt and Jesus' Intentions by Oakman, Douglas E.

Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer

$23.00
Format: Paperback
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Deeply rooted in the story of Jesus of Nazareth is a concern for people mired in debt. Debt was a central control mechanism for the administration of the Roman Empire. Client states such as those of the Herods in Palestine were entrusted with maintenance of the established order, the Pax Romana, and their patronage entailed legions of the indebted. Debt kept peasants at their plows and contributed to the suffering bodies and tortured minds that Jesus attempted to heal. His parables and central prayer feature the forgiveness of money debts. In the end, his praxis to liberate people from perennial debt led to a Roman cross, but his memory was kept alive at the table around which he communed with tax collectors and debtors alike.

Author: Douglas E. Oakman
ISBN-10: 162564793X
ISBN-13: 9781625647931
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2014
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
By Douglas E. Oakman
By Douglas E. Oakman
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Douglas E. Oakman has been with the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University since 1988. Prior to that he taught at Santa Clara University, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco Theological Seminary. He was chair of the Religion Department from 1996-2003 and Dean of Humanities from 2004-2010. Oakman has published numerous articles applying the social sciences to biblical studies. He is the author of Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day (1986), with K. C. Hanson the award-winning Palestine in the Time of Jesus (second edition, 2008), Jesus and the Peasants (Cascade Books, 2008), The Political Aims of Jesus (2012), and Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer (Cascade Books, 2014). Oakman is an ordained minister on the roster of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. During the 1990s, he participated in archaeological excavations at Jotapata and Cana in Galilee.

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