There Shall Be No Poor Among You is a careful and comprehensive
but not overly technical study of the biblical portrait of the poor
and poverty. Hoppe introduces the study with the socioeconomic
structures of ancient Israel and Roman Palestine, then proceeds
systematically to examine the biblical evidence, including that of
the Old Testament, New Testament, Apocrypha, and rabbinic
literature.
The Bible describes the poor and poverty in a variety of ways.
Sometimes poverty is a curse; other times it is a blessing.
Sometimes the text is concerned about material poverty exclusively;
other times poverty becomes a metaphor for another reality. Hoppe
describes the various ways the Bible deals with the poor, but his
fundamental conclusion is that the Bible never idealizes the
reality of material poverty and the oppression of the poor by the
rich. Even when the Bible speaks of poverty of the spirit as a
positive religious metaphor, God requires humans to seek social
justice.
Hoppe suggests that just as poverty is not idealized in the
Bible, so the poor should be a priority of every community of
faith. Ancient Israel, early Judaism, Jesus, and the first
Christians did not forget the poor, and if believers today wish to
be faithful to their biblical heritage, neither can they.
This book provides a practical background for scholars and is a
primer for a significant theological motif. It will be useful in
the classroom (in college and seminary courses in biblical ethics
and social justice), as well as in serious Bible study. Study
questions will help readers and students further probe history,
theology, and application."
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