About this ebook
ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of world hunger and put in
the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global
austerity measures and warfare. Here biblical scholars take readings of the Old
and New Testaments, exploring the dynamics of hunger and its causation in
ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman world and revealing the centrality of hunger
concerns to the Bible.
About the author
Sheila E. McGinn is professor and chair in the department of theology and religious studies at John Carroll University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on early Christian literature and feminist interpretation.
Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan is associate professor of Christian Scriptures at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. Her research interest focuses on reading women's stories and portrayals in the Hebrew Bible from a feminist Asian American perspective. She has contributed book chapters to Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Constructing Asian-American Biblical Interpretation; Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women's Religion and Theology; The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation; and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect. Volume 1: Biblical Books.
Ahida Calderón Pilarski is associate professor in the Department of Theology at Saint Anselm College. She has published papers on the prophets, Latino/a and Latin American hermeneutics, and feminist interpretation.
