Re-Reading the Prophets Through Corporate Globalization : : A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Economic Injustice in the Hebrew Bible / / Matthew J. M. Coomber.

Using societal patterns of exploitation that are evidenced in agrarian societies from the Bronze Age to modern-day corporate globalization, Re-Reading the Prophets offers a new approach to understanding the hidden contexts behind prophetic complaints against economic injustice in eighth-century Juda...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Biblical Intersections ; Volume
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Physical Description:1 online resource (343 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • 1. INTRODUCTION: THE LOST CONTEXTS OF EIGHTH-CENTURY PROPHECY
  • 2. CULTURAL-EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND ECONOMIC MOTIVATION
  • 3. TRADE AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
  • 4. TWENTIETH-CENTURY CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION
  • 5. RESHAPING LANDOWNERSHIP IN TUNISIA
  • 6. INSIGHTS TO BE GAINED THROUGH THE MODERN CONTEXT
  • 7. CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX