Publications

Books
Amos and Micah Through the Centuries. Blackwell Bible Commentaries. Oxford: Wiley
Blackwell, forthcoming (under contract)

Re-Reading the Prophets through Corporate Globalization: A Cultural-Evolutionary
Approach to Understanding Economic Injustice in the Hebrew Bible.
Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2010

Edited Books
Fortress Commentary on the Bible: Old Testament and Apocrypha. Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 2014

Bible and Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges. New York: Routledge, 2011.


Journal Articles
“A Biblical Ethic for Confronting Debt and Poverty in the Modern World.” Journal of Religion and Society 16 (2018, forthcoming).

“Debt as Weapon: Manufacturing Poverty from Judah to Today.” Diaconia: Journal for the Study of Christian Social Practice 4, No. 2 (2013): 141–58.

“Caught in the Crossfire? Economic Injustice and Prophetic Motivation in Eighth-Century Judah.” Biblical Interpretation 19, No. 4–5 (2011): 396–432.

“Subsistence and Greed: Revisiting the Eighth-Century Prophets in an Age of Globalization.” Masihi Sevak 24, No. 3 (2009): 14–30.

Book Chapters
“Those at Ease Have Contempt for Misfortune: Biblical Approaches to Challenging Anti-Poor Sentiment.” Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences. Edited by Jeremiah Cataldo. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.

“Occupying the Temple in Ancient Judah: Resisting Debt Abuses, from Jerusalem to Wall Street.” Pages 131-62 in Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis: Political Exegesis for a New Day. Edited by Bruce Worthington. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.

“Micah’s Date.” Page li, in Micah. Authored by Julia O’Brien. Wisdom Commentary Series. Chicago: Liturgical Press, 2015.

“Women and Land Seizure in Micah.” Pages 25-26 in Micah. Authored by Julia O’Brien. Wisdom Commentary Series. Chicago: Liturgical Press, 2015.

“Justice and Power,” Pages 89-90 in Micah. Authored by Julia O’Brien. Wisdom Commentary Series. Chicago: Liturgical Press, 2015.

“Reading the Old Testament in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts.” Pages 5-29 in Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha. Edited by Gale A. Yee, Hugh R. Page, Jr., and Matthew J.M. Coomber. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.

“Jonah.” Pages 861-69 in Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha. Edited by Gale A. Yee, Hugh R. Page, Jr., and Matthew J.M. Coomber. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.

“Micah.” Pages 871-84 in Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha. Edited by Gale A. Yee, Hugh R. Page, Jr., and Matthew J.M. Coomber. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.

“Before Crossing the Jordan: The Telling and Retelling of the Exodus Narrative in African-American History.” Pages 123-36 in Exodus and Deuteronomy: Texts @ Contexts. Edited by Athalya Brenner and Gale A. Yee. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012.

“Prophets to Profits: Ancient Judah and Corporate Globalization.” Pages 212-37 in Bible and Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges. BibleWorld. Edited by Matthew J.M. Coomber. Oakville, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2011.