Foreword by K.C. Hanson
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Two Kingdoms, One Table-Jesus in Political
Perspective
2 Jesus and Agrarian Debt
3 The Lord's Prayer in Social Perspective
4 Jesus the Tax Resister
5 Conclusion: Need or Greed as the Proper End of Economics?
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Documents
Douglas E. Oakman has been with the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University since 1988. Prior to that he taught at Santa Clara University, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco Theological Seminary. Oakman has published numerous articles applying the social sciences to biblical studies. With K. C. Hanson he is the author the award-winning 'Palestine in the Time of Jesus' (second edition, 2008), 'Jesus and the Peasants' (2008), and 'The Political Aims of Jesus' (2012). Oakman is an ordained minister on the roster of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
"Oakman has produced a book which demands your attention and is one
to challenge your views."
-Cavan Wood, The Reader, Vol. 114, No. 4, Winter 2015
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