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  • Justice for the Poor?
    Walter J. Houston / Walter JHouston
    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 ...
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    31,21 €

  • Amos
    Walter J. Houston
    This study guide to Amos is divided into three parts. The first sets out to describe the genre, style, shape and aim of the text, along with its leading ideas, with the help of recent scholarship on the Hebrew Bible in general and the prophets in particular. Special note is taken of the many images of violence in Amos, along with its denunciations of injustice, and its overwhel...
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    34,66 €

  • Scm Core Text Pentateuch
    Walter Houston
    This book introduces students with a little background in biblical studies to the scholarly study of the Pentateuch (Genesis to Deuteronomy). Existing introductions to the Pentateuch are either mainly concerned with historical criticism or taken up with a survey of the contents of the five books, or both. This book is distinctive in that every chapter is concerned with the whol...
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    54,04 €

  • Justice
    Walter J. Houston
    What does the Bible have to say about justice, and what relevance has this for people, particularly Christians, today? ’Justice: The Biblical Challenge’ offers readers a balanced assessment of the biblical treatment of justice and what we might learn from this. ...
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    74,99 €

  • Purity and Monotheism
    Walter Houston
    The distinction between clean and unclean animals, probably originating in tensions between shepherds and farmers, is in the biblical laws of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 transformed into an important theological principle. In this wide-ranging and elegantly written study, Houston argues that the avoidance of ’unclean’ foods is a mark of the exclusive devotion of Israel to o...
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    61,17 €

  • Contending for Justice
    Walter Houston
    Contending for Justice analyses texts on social justice in the Old Testament and argues that despite their ideological character they may still assist in shaping a Christian theological approach to social and global injustice. The book argues on the one hand that a class interest is involved in all texts on the subject of social justice, and on the other that, that the very int...
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    122,70 €