The City in the Valley: Biblical Interpretation and Urban Theology

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Society of Biblical Lit, 2005 - 370 pages

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Personal Reflections on an American
1
Socioeconomic Reasons for the Divine Man
11
Who Is the True Prophet?
25
The Urban Adventure of the Early Church
53
Jesus and Caesar
69
On Pauls Image of the Human
93
Legal Dimensions of Money and Theological
103
Meditations on Pauls Ethics
135
Johns Heavenly Jerusalem
161
Patriarchys Last Stand
187
Should Augustine Have the Last Word
195
for the Social History of Biblical Criticism
221
Is There Justification in Money? A Historical
283
Josiah Royce
309
Reflections on
323
On Sojourning
367

Why Was Paul Killed? The Epistle to the Romans
147

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