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“Declaring Bankruptcy” in the Temple: Broken Tables, Roman Law, and the Church–State Ledger

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The Gospel accounts of Jesus cleansing the temple are often read as a burst of righteous anger, a prophet’s visceral response to commerce crowding out prayer. That reading is not wrong, but it is incomplete. A legal and economic lens clarifies the moment. When Jesus scatters coins and overturns tables, he is not staging a...

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