Jesus and the Economic Questions

by Douglas E. Oakman

A study of the social conditions of first-century Palestine that explores the economic context of the historical Jesus, focusing on: issues of production and economic distribution; the Jesus tradition from an economic perspective; comparative material from Biblical and Hellenistic authors; Jesus' occupation and the settings a carpenter might have encountered in finding work; the social contracts that could have resulted in Jesus' becoming a broker...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889466084
• ISBN13: 9780889466081
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 319 Pages