How can Scripture address the crucial justice issues of our time? In this book Mark Brett
offers a careful reading of biblical texts that speak to such pressing public issues as the …

You Shall Love the Stranger as Yourself addresses the complex political, legal, and
humanitarian challenges raised by asylum-seekers and refugees from a Biblical …

The destructions caused by the military campaigns of the Neo-Assyrian empire in the
southern Levant during the Iron Age IIB and IIC (8th–7th centuries bce) led to mass …

The use of forced migration and forced labor by the Achaemenids has received almost no
scholarly attention, despite hints that both were widely used strategies. Moreover, the …

Discusses the nature of the evidence available for the study of the effects of warfare on
civilian populations including textual, art historical and archaeological and their inherent …

The explicit archaeological interest in race as a topic of inquiry only developed in the 1990s.
Before this, but only beginning in the 1980s, many historical archaeologists investigated …

For millions of Jewish and Christian people, the Bible remains the foundational text that
guides their lives and social behavior, including that related to migrants and displaced …

The relationship between tectonic environment and human activity has a long history that
intimately involves the Ancient Near East and Levant. Texts from the third millennium …

Refugee crises in recent years have raised questions concerning the extent of the role that
forced migration has played in earlier historical periods in different regions. The issue is an …

The materiality of forced migration and resettlement have understandably moved to the
forefront of archaeological research recently, although data from prehistoric refugia remain …