
Justice for the Poor?
Social Justice in the Old Testament in Concept and Practice
Walter J. Houston(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 9. March 2020
276 pages
978-1-5326-4602-7 (ISBN)
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Can the Old Testament help us in keeping the excesses of capitalism in check? How can a book that goes on about "justice and righteousness," but says "there will always be poor people in the land" and accepts slavery have anything to say to us about social justice? Did kings of Israel draft their subjects--and which subjects--for forced labor? What does it mean when the Psalms say God is coming to judge the world? Is charity justice?--or is justice more than charity? Does Genesis give us the right to use the earth and its creatures as we like? These are some of the questions that Walter Houston asks, and tries to answer, in this book of essays from his work over the last twenty-five years.
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United States
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Walter J. Houston is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Center for Biblical Studies at the University of Manchester, England, and an Emeritus Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. He is the author of Contending for Justice (2008).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: "Justice and Right"
- Chapter 2: "You Shall Open Your Hand to Your Needy Brother"
- Chapter 3: The King's Preferential Option for the Poor
- Chapter 4: What's Just about the Jubilee?
- Chapter 5: The Role of the Poor in Proverbs
- Chapter 6: Was There a Social Crisis in the Eighth Century?
- Chapter 7: Exit the Oppressed Peasant?
- Chapter 8: Corvée in the Kingdom of Israel
- Chapter 9: The Scribe and His Class
- Chapter 10: Doing Justice
- Chapter 11: The Psalms of YHWH's Kingship
- Chapter 12: "To Share Your Bread with the Hungry"
- Chapter 13: Justice and Violence in the Priestly Utopia
- Bibliography
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