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Medieval Markets &
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Marx & the Critique
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Global Income Inequality
  Liberation Theology The Prosperity Gospel
  Catholic Social Teaching



The Bible & Ethics

Bretzke, James T.  "Scripture and Ethics: Moving along the Sacred Claim Axis."   In A Morally Complex World. Engaging Contemporary Moral Theology (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2004) 79-98.

Cahill, Lisa Sowle.  "The Bible and Christian Moral Practices."   In Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects (ed. Lisa Sowle Cahill and James F. Childress; Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1996) 3-17.

Gunnemann, Jon P.  "Thinking Theologically about the Economic."   In Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects (ed. Lisa Sowle Cahill and James F. Childress; Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 1996) 315-33.

Gustafson, James M.  "The Place of Scripture in Christian Ethics: A Methodological Study."   Interpretation 24:4 (1970) 430-55.

Hays, Richard B.  "New Testament Ethics: The Theological Task."   Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 15 (1995) 97-120.

Hays, Richard B.  "Scripture-shaped Community: The Problem of Method in New Testament Ethics."   Interpretation 44:1 (1990) 42-55.

O’Donovan, Oliver.  "The Moral Authority of Scripture."   In Scripture's Doctrine and Theology's Bible (ed. Markus Bockmuehl and Alan J. Torrance; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008) 165-75.

Parker, David.  "Ethics and the New Testament."   Studies in Christian Ethics 10:2 (1997) 39-63.

Perkins, Pheme.  "New Testament Ethics: Questions and Contexts."   Religious Studies Review 10 (October 1984) 321-7.

Pontifical Biblical Commission.  "The Bible and Morality: Biblical Roots of Christian Conduct."   Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008.

Torrance, Alan J.  "Can the Truth Be Learned? Redressing the 'Theologistic Fallacy' in Modern Biblical Scholarship."   In Scripture's Doctrine and Theology's Bible (ed. Markus Bockmuehl and Alan J. Torrance; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008) 143-63.

Vanhoozer, Kevin J.  "The Apostolic Discourse and Its Developments."  In Scripture's Doctrine and Theology's Bible (ed. Markus Bockmuehl and Alan J. Torrance; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008) 191-207.

Verhey, Allen.  "Scripture and Ethics: Practices, Performances and Prescriptions."  In Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects (ed. Lisa Sowle Cahill and James F. Childress; Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1996) 18-44.

Viviano, Benedict Thomas.  "The Normativity of Scripture and Tradition in Recent Catholic Theology."  In Scripture's Doctrine and Theology's Bible (ed. Markus Bockmuehl and Alan J. Torrance; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008) 125-40.

Wannenwetsch, Bernd.  "The Fourfold Pattern of Christian Moral Reasoning according to the New Testament."  In Scripture's Doctrine and Theology's Bible (ed. Markus Bockmuehl and Alan J. Torrance; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008) 177-90.




The Bible & Wealth

Brueggemann, Walter.  Money and Possessions, Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2016.



Hebrew Bible
Context
 
Applebaum, S.  "The Social and Economic Status of the Jews in the Diaspora."  In The Jewish People in the First Century, 2 vols. (ed. S. Safrai and M. Stern; CRINT; Assen/Minneapolis: Van Gorcum/Fortress, 1974–1976) 2.701-727.
 
Chaney, Marvin L.  "Debt Easement in Israelite History and Tradition."  In The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Norman K. Gottwald on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (ed. David Jobling, Peggy L. Day and Gerald T. Sheppard; Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1991) 127-39, 325-9.
 
Frenkel, Miriam and Yaacov Lev.  Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions, SGKIO 22.  New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
 
Hoppe, Leslie J.  There Shall Be No Poor among You: Poverty in the Bible.  Nashville; Abingdon, 2004.
 
Neusner, Jacob, ed.  Religious Belief and Economic Behavior: Ancient Israel, Classical Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, and Contemporary Ireland and Africa.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.
 
Richardson, Alan.  The Biblical Doctrine of Work.  London: SCM, 1952.
 
Ro, Johannes Unsok.  Poverty, Law, and Divine Justice in Persian and Hellenistic Judah, Ancient Israel and Its Literature 32.  Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018.
 
White, Robert L.  Biblical Economics: Economic Myths versus Biblical Values.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2006.




New Testament

Gospel of Matthew

Myles, Robert J.  The Homeless Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, Social World of Biblical Antiquity 2/10.  Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2014.


Gospel of Luke

Hays, Christopher M.  "Beyond Mint and Rue: The Implications of Luke’s Interpretive Controversies for Modern Consumerism."  Political Theology 11:3 (2010) 383-98.

--------.  "Hating Wealth and Wives? An Examination of Discipleship Ethics in the Third Gospel."  Tyndale Bulletin 60:1 (2009) 47-68.


Paul

Blanton, Thomas R., IV and Raymond Pickett, eds.  Paul and Economics: A Handbook.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017.

Verbrugge, Verlyn D. and Keith R. Krell.  Paul and Money: A Biblical and Theological Analysis of the Apostle’s Teachings and Practices.   Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2015.


Revelation




Judaism & Early Christianity

Roman Palestine
 
Applebaum, Shimon.  "Economic Life in Palestine."  In The Jewish People in the First Century, 2 vols. (ed. S. Safrai and M. Stern with D. Flusser and W. C. van Unnik; CRINT 1.2; Assen/Minneapolis: Van Gorcum/Fortress, 1974–1976) 2.631-700.
 
Bowersock, Glenn Warren.  Studies on the Eastern Roman Empire: Social, Economic and Administrative History, Religion, Historiography, BibEr 9.  Goldbach: Keip, 1994.
 
Freyne, Seán.  "Herodian Economics in Galilee: Searching for a Suitable Model."  In Modelling Early Christianity: Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in its Context (ed. Philip F. Esler; New York: Routledge, 1995) 23-46.
 
Hamel, Gildas.  Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine, First Three Centuries C.E., UCPNES 23.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
 
Hanson, K. C.  "The Galilean Fishing Economy and the Jesus Tradition."   Biblical Theology Bulletin 27 (1997) 99-111.
 
Hanson, K. C. and Douglas Oakman.  Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.
 
Harland, Philip A.  "The Economy of First-Century Palestine: State of the Scholarly Discussion."  In Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches (ed. Anthony J. Blasi, Jean Duhaime and Paul-André Turcotte; Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira, 2002) 511-27.
 
Klausner, J.  "The Economy of Judaea in the Period of the Second Temple."  In The Herodian Period (ed. M. Avi-Yonah; WHJP; New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1975) 179-205.
 
Kloppenborg, John S.  The Tenants in the Vineyard: Ideology, Economics, and Agrarian Conflict in Jewish Palestine, WUNT 195.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.
 
--------.  "The Growth and Impact of Agricultural Tenancy in Jewish Palestine (III B.C.E.–I C.E.)."  In Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 51 (2008) 31-66.
 
Lapin, Hayim.  Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine, TSAJ 85.  Tübingen: Paul Mohr, 2001.
 
Pastor, Jack.  Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine.  New York: Routledge, 1997.
 
Ramos, Alexander J.  "Torah, Temple, and Transaction: Jewish Religious Institutions and Economic Behavior in Early Roman Galilee."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
 
Rosenfeld, Ben-Zion and Joseph Menirav.  "Methods of Pricing and Price Regulation in Roman Palestine in the Third and Fourth Centuries."  Journal of the American Oriental Society 121:3 (2001) 351-69.
 
Safrai, Z.  The Economy of Roman Palestine.  New York: Routledge, 1994.
 
Sperber, Daniel.  Roman Palestine 200–400: The Land, SNELC.  Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1978.
 
--------.  Roman Palestine 200–400: Money and Prices, 2nd ed, SNELC.  Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1991; original, 1974.
 
Syon, Danny.  "Tyre and Gamla: A Study in the Monetary Influence of Southern Phoenicia on Galilee and the Golan in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Hebrew University, 2004.
 
Udoh, Fabian E.  To Caesar What Is Caesar's: Tribute, Taxes and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine (63 B.C.E.–70 C.E.), BJS 343.  Providence, Rhode Island: Brown Judaic Studies, 2005.




Medieval Markets & Early Capitalism




Reformation & the "Protestant Ethic"




Marx & the Critique of Capitalism

Marx


Marx & Religion


Theological Heirs

Ward, W. R.  "The Socialist Commitment in Karl Barth."  In Religious Motivation: Biographical and Sociological Problems for the Church Historian. Papers Read at the Sixteenth Summer Meeting and the Seventeenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (ed. Derek Baker; Studies in Church History 15; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978) 453-65.




Libertarian Tendencies in the U.S.

Populist Sentiment & Biblical Rhetoric

Henkels, Stan V., Jr.  "Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States."  Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1928.  Online, http://kenhirsch.net/money/AndrewJacksonAndTheBankHenkels.pdf, accessed 10 July 2014.


Ayn Rand & Her Disciples


Christian Reconstructionists

North, Gary.  Priorities and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Matthew, 2d ed.   Dallas, Georgia: Point Five Press, 2012.




Global Income Inequality

Alvarado, Facundo, Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez.  "The World Top Incomes Database."  Online, http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes/, accessed 10 July 2014.

Berg, Andrew G. and Jonathan D. Ostry.  "Inequality and Unsustainable Growth: Two Sides of the Same Coin?"  International Monetary Fund Staff Discussion Note (April 8, 2011, SDN/11/08).

Kumhof, Michael and Romain Rancière.  "Inequality, Leverage and Crises."  International Monetary Fund Working Paper (November 2010) WP/10/268.




Liberation Theology




The Prosperity Gospel




Catholic Social Teaching

Cloutier, David.  The Vice of Luxury: Economic Excess in a Consumer Age, Moral Traditions.   Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press, 2015.

Curran, Charles E.  Catholic Social Teaching, 1891–Present: A Historical, Theological, and Ethical Analysis, Moral Traditions.  Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002.

--------.  The Social Mission of the U.S. Catholic Church: A Theological Perspective, Moral Traditions.  Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011.

Himes, Kenneth R., ed.  Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations, 2nd ed.  Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press, 2018.



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