Poverty, Wealth, and Empire
Sandford, Michael J.
Poverty, Wealth, and Empire presents an antidote to the liberalJesuses that are constantly being constructed by theologiansand historians in universities and seminaries in the West.Sandford's programme is to pay attention to those textswhere Jesus appears hostile to his audiences, or even invokesthe idea of divine judgment and violence against certaingroups. Drawing on a variety of texts in the SynopticGospels, Sandford finds violent denunciat...