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By Bread Alone

The Bible Through the Eyes of the Hungry

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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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 welfare. These concerns have not always affected the way the biblical texts themselves have been read, however. Here, inspired by calls, from Dorothee Solle and Kathleen O'Connor, biblical scholars apply a "hermeneutics of hunger" to the Bible, taking readings of texts from the Old and New Testaments alike on the premise that human hunger and want are urgent concerns that rightly shape the work of interpretation. Too often, however, as the authors show, biblical texts--like Jesus' well known words that humans do not live "by bread alone"--have been used to marginalize such concerns within religious communities. Their essays here explore the dynamics of hunger and its causation in ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman world and challenge readers to take seriously the centrality of hunger concerns in the Bible.
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  • Author

    Sheila E. McGinn

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    August 2014

  • Weight

    364g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451465501

  • ISBN-10

    1451465505

  • Eden Code

    4285717

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