New PDF release: Tight Fists or Open Hands?: Wealth and Poverty in Old

Any Christian reaction to modern-day ever-growing challenge of poverty world wide needs to be firmly rooted in biblical instructing. whereas books on numerous points of wealth and poverty within the previous and New Testaments were released, thus far there was no thorough research of outdated testomony legislations at the subject. David Baker argues right here that an realizing of that legislations isn't just primary for examining the total previous testomony, however it can also be assumed by way of the writers of the hot Testament. Tight Fists or Open Hands? fills this hole in outdated testomony scholarship and lays a origin for contemplating the relevance of those legislation to way of life within the twenty-first century. 

the center of this booklet is a learn of all of the biblical legislation occupied with wealth and poverty. Baker teams those legislation jointly through subject, contemplating the similarities and adjustments among the Decalogue, e-book of the Covenant, Holiness Code, and Deuteronomic legislation. He then areas those within the context of old close to jap legislation with a purpose to clarify which attitudes are enormously biblical and that are held in universal with different civilized peoples. 

each one part of Tight Fists or Open Hands? includes a longer end that summarizes the most principles, considers relationships with different biblical texts, and issues to the importance of the legislation for latest international. Such thorough exegesis and smooth program make this publication correct to pastors, students, and scholars in various courses.