(ALIEN) The terms stranger (or foreigner) and alien are likely to conjure pictures and connotations in the Western mind that are quite different from what the biblical authors expected. In order to understand the idea in the Bible, we need to start with the importance of land ownership in the culture of the biblical world. Land ownership was intimately linked to the growing of crops and the pasturing of animals that in turn created a more certain food supply as well as resources for making