Matthew J. M. Coomber (PhD University of Sheffield) is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at St. Ambrose University and an Episcopal priest. In addition to authoring Re-Reading the Prophets through Corporate Globalization, he has edited Bible and Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges (Equinox, 2011), and co-edited Fortress Commentary on the Bible: Old Testament and Apocrypha (2016). Coomber is currently authoring Through the Centuries: Amos and Micah (Wiley-Blackwell) editing a six-volume series entitled The Cascade Companion on Bible and Economics (Cascade).
Using societal patterns of exploitation that are evidenced in agrarian societies from the Bronze Age to modern-day corporate globalization, Re-Reading the Prophets offers a new approach to understanding the hidden contexts behind prophetic complaints against economic injustice in eighth-century Judah.