Douglas E. Oakman is Professor of New Testament at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He is author of Palestine in the Time of Jesus (with K. C. Hanson, 2008), Jesus and the Peasants (2008), The Political Aims of Jesus(2012), and Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer (2014). Oakman was a founding member of The Context Group and has been Chair of Religion and Dean of Humanities. He is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church.