Petri Luomanen

The Radical Jesus, the Bible, and the Great Transformation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Douglas E. Oakman’s decades-long research on Jesus traditions in their original Galilean social, economic, and political setting comes to mature expression in this engaging collection of essays. The essays represent rigorous historically oriented social-scientific study combined with perceptive discussion of the present relevance of biblical traditions. The author’s interest in the meaning of Scriptures is rooted in his Lutheran background but grows to break all doctrinal and confessional boundaries by challenging readers, regardless of their confession or lack of it, to ponder ‘what does it mean’ to take seriously the economic implications of biblical traditions and especially of the original message of Jesus.”