You Shall Not Bow Down and Serve Them

by Richard A. Horsley

Economic justice is the core of the biblical tradition. In this innovative volume, Horsley takes the reader deep in examining how Jesus' economic project was shaped in opposition to the Roman imperial order and how Paul's development of communities around the Mediterranean was part of creating an alternative society among those subject to Rome. This analysis sets in the foreground the fundamental issues of food security, access to resources, and liberation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666727067
• ISBN13: 9781666727067
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"