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Deeply rooted in the story of Jesus of Nazareth is a concern for
people mired in debt. Debt was a central control mechanism for the
administration of the Roman Empire. Client states such as those of
the Herods in Palestine were entrusted with maintenance of the
established order, the Pax Romana, and their patronage entailed
legions of the indebted. Debt kept peasants at their plows and
contributed to the suffering bodies and tortured minds that Jesus
attempted to heal. His parables and central prayer feature the
forgiveness of money debts. In the end, his praxis to liberate
people from perennial debt led to a Roman cross, but his memory was
kept alive at the table around which he communed with tax
collectors and debtors alike.
Hanson and Oakman's award-winning and illuminating volume has
become a widely used and cited introduction to the social context
of Jesus and the early Jesus movement. This second edition updates
all the discussions in light of more recent scholarship, improves
clarity and readability of diagrams and maps, provides additional
diagrams and images to enhance the book for student use, and
includes new classroom resources, for professors and students, on a
Companion Web site. Along with an overview of the ancient
Mediterranean worldview, Palestine in the Time of Jesus explores
major domains and institutions of Roman Palestine: kinship,
politics, economy, and religion.
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