WealthWatch
Subtitle
A Study of Socioeconomic Conflict in the Bible
The purpose of this book is to help postmodern Westerners understand what the Bible has to say about wealth and possessions, basing itself on the presumption that nobody can understand themselves apart from some recognition of their spiritual roots and that these roots sink deeper into the pages of the Bible than most Westerners realize.
Focusing upon that part of the Bible most widely recognized to be its ideological core — that which is called Torah by some, Pentateuch by others — it interprets this "great text" against other "great texts" in its literary-historical environment, including some epic poems from Mesopotamia, some Jewish texts from Syria-Palestine and some Nazarene parables from the Greek New Testament.
Bio
Michael S. Moore is a faculty associate in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. He is also director of the Arizona Research Center for the Ancient Near East and a faculty associate with Fuller Theological Seminary.
Praise for this book
This remarkable book by Michael Moore asks what the Bible and other ancient texts have to say about important socioeconomic questions involving wealth: its acquisition and protection; deprivation and slavery; corruption and hedonism; and even relations between management and labor. This is a thoughtful and eminently readable study that nicely lays out the big problems entailed by wealth and looks at how ancient literature offers critiques of wealth practices and related social problems.
Mark S. Smith, professor New York University
"Michael Moore has written an extraordinarily wide-ranging, widely-read, lively, swashbuckling, and illuminating book on a topic of huge importance in our world — indeed (as he shows) in any world. It will give you new understanding of the Bible, it will not bore you, and the footnotes alone are an education."
John Goldingay, professor Fuller Theological Seminary
