By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry
Important ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of addressing world hunger and put in the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global austerity measures and welfare. Here biblical scholars examine passages from 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.

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By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry
Important ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of addressing world hunger and put in the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global austerity measures and welfare. Here biblical scholars examine passages from 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.

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Overview

Important ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of addressing world hunger and put in the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global austerity measures and welfare. Here biblical scholars examine passages from 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781451465501
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 08/01/2014
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ahida Calderon Pilarski is associate professor in the department of theology at Saint Anselm College. She has published papers on the prophets, Latino/a and Latin American hermeneutics, and feminist interpretation.


Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan is associate professor of Christian Scriptures at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. Her research interest focuses on reading women's stories and portrayals in the Hebrew Bible from a feminist Asian American perspective.


Sheila E. McGinn is professor and chair in the department of theology and religious studies at John Carroll University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on early Christian literature and feminist interpretation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Foreword Christine Vladimiroff, OSB xi

Introduction: the Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan Ahida Calderón Pilarski Sheila E. McGinn 1

1 Let All the Peoples Praise You: Biblical Studies and a Hermeneutics of Hunger Kathleen M. O'Connor 17

2 Feeding the Poor in Isaiah 58:1-9a: A Call to Justice, Mercy, and True Worship J. L. Manzo 35

3 From Drought to Starvation (Jeremiah 14:1-9): A National Experience, a Global Reality Carol J. Dempsey, OP 51

4 War, Famine, and Baby Stew: A Recipe for Disaster in the Book of Lamentations Lauress L. Wilkins 67

5 Social and Theological Aspects of Hunger in Sirach Bradley C. Gregory 89

6 "You Give Them Something to Eat" (Mark 6:37): Beyond a Hermeneutic of Hunger Mary Ann Beavis 111

7 The Friend at Midnight (Luke 11:1-10) Linda Maloney 129

8 An Empty Jar and a Starving Woman: Gospel of Thomas Logion 97 and a Hermeneutics of Hunger Susan M. (Elli) Elliott 135

9 Including the Hungry Adelphoi: Exploring Pauline Points of View in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 Ma. Marilou S. Ibita 159

10 2 Thessalonians vs. the Ataktoi: A Pauline Critique of "White-Collar Welfare" Sheila E. McGinn Megan T. Wilson-Reitz 185

Contributors 209

Select Bibliography 217

Index of Names 243

Index of Biblical and Ancient Literature References 247

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