By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry - Softcover

Pilarski, Ahida Calderon; Ngan, Lai Ling Elizabeth; McGinn, Sheila E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451465505 ISBN 13: 9781451465501

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 Sölle 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 textslike 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

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. She has contributed book chapters to Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Constructing Asian-American Biblical Interpretation; Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women's Religion and Theology; The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation; and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect. Volume 1: Biblical Books.

Ahida Calderón 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1451465505
• ISBN 13: 9781451465501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224