| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword / Christine Vladimiroff, OSB -- Introduction: The Bible through the eyes of the hungry / Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan, Ahida Calderón Pilarski, and Sheila E. McGinn -- Let all the peoples praise you : biblical studies and a hermeneutics of hunger / Kathleen M. O'Connor -- Feeding the poor in Isaiah 58:1-9a : a call to justice, mercy, and true worship / J.L. Manzo -- From drought to starvation (Jeremiah 14:1-9) : a national experience, a global reality / Carol J. Dempsey, OP -- War, famine, and baby stew : a recipe for disaster in the Book of Lamentations / Lauress L. Wilkins -- Social and theological aspects of hunger in Sirach / Bradley C. Gregory -- "You give them something to eat" (Mark 6:37) : beyond a hermeneutic of hunger / Mary Ann Beavis -- The friend at midnight (Luke 11:1-10) / Linda Maloney -- An empty jar and a starving woman : Gospel of Thomas Logion 97 and a hermeneutics of hunger / Susan M. (Elli) Elliott -- Including the hungry adelphoi : exploring Pauline points of view in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 / Ma. Marilou S. Ibita -- 2 Thessalonians vs. the ataktoi : a Pauline critique of "white-collar welfare" / Sheila E. McGinn and Megan T. Wilson-Reitz |
| Summary |
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 warfare. Here biblical scholars take readings of the Old and New Testaments, exploring the dynamics of hunger and its causation in ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman world and revealing the centrality of hunger concerns to the Bible |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hunger -- Biblical teaching
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BIBLES -- General.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Exegesis & Hermeneutics.
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Hunger -- Biblical teaching
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pilarski, Ahida Calderón, editor
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Ngan, Lai Ling Elizabeth, editor
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McGinn, Sheila E., editor
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| ISBN |
9781451472448 |
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1451472447 |
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