A Bible and literature scholar offers a fresh examination of Jesus's financial parables with an eye toward contemporary application.
Preface: Hidden Treasure
1. The World Wide Web of Parables
2. An Oil Baron and an Embezzler
3. A Solicitor and a Samaritan
4. A Billionaire and a Beggar
5. Bankruptcy, Bitterness, and the Banquet
6. A Widow and the Workers
7. Taxes, Towers, and Bags of Gold
Conclusion: Debtor's Prison
Index
Keith Bodner (PhD, University of Manchester; PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Stuart E. Murray Chair and professor of religious studies at Crandall University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is also on the pastoral staff at Brunswick Street Baptist Church, Fredericton. Bodner is the author or editor of numerous books, including Jeroboam's Royal Drama, The Psalms, and The Theology of the Book of Kings.
