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Engaging economics : New Testament scenarios and early Christian reception / edited by Bruce W. Longenecker & Kelly D. Liebengood.

Contributor(s): Longenecker, Bruce W | Liebengood, Kelly D, 1970-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub., [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: vii, 336 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802864147 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0802864147 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Economics in the Bible | Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 261.8/5 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood -- Methodological issues in using economic evidence in interpretation of early Christian texts / Peter Oakes -- Money matters : economic relations and the transformation of value in early Christianity / Stephen C. Barton -- Jesus, virtuoso religion, and the community of goods / Brian J. Capper -- The spirit and the "other," Satan and the "self" : economic ethics as a consequence of identity transformation in Luke-Acts / Aaron J. Kuecker -- Agrarian discourse and the sayings of Jesus : "measure for measure" in Gospel traditions and agricultural practices / John S. Kloppenborg -- Was God Paul's patron? : the economy of patronage in Pauline theology / David J. Downs -- The economics of humility : the rich and the humble in James / Mariam Kamell -- Aliens and strangers? : the socioeconomic location of the addressees of 1 Peter / David G. Horrell -- The poor of Galatians 2:10 : the interpretative paradigm of the first four centuries / Bruce W. Longenecker -- Tertullian on widows : a North African appropriation of Pauline household economics / David E. Wilhite -- Critiquing Rome's economy : Revelation and its reception in the Apostolic Fathers / Grant Macaskill -- By almsgiving and faith sins are purged? : the theological underpinnings of early Christian care for the poor / Christopher M. Hays -- Zacchaeus's half : ascetical economy in the Syriac Book of steps / Robert A. Kitchen -- Afterword / Bruce W. Longenecker.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BR115 .E3 E54 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903267264

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood -- Methodological issues in using economic evidence in interpretation of early Christian texts / Peter Oakes -- Money matters : economic relations and the transformation of value in early Christianity / Stephen C. Barton -- Jesus, virtuoso religion, and the community of goods / Brian J. Capper -- The spirit and the "other," Satan and the "self" : economic ethics as a consequence of identity transformation in Luke-Acts / Aaron J. Kuecker -- Agrarian discourse and the sayings of Jesus : "measure for measure" in Gospel traditions and agricultural practices / John S. Kloppenborg -- Was God Paul's patron? : the economy of patronage in Pauline theology / David J. Downs -- The economics of humility : the rich and the humble in James / Mariam Kamell -- Aliens and strangers? : the socioeconomic location of the addressees of 1 Peter / David G. Horrell -- The poor of Galatians 2:10 : the interpretative paradigm of the first four centuries / Bruce W. Longenecker -- Tertullian on widows : a North African appropriation of Pauline household economics / David E. Wilhite -- Critiquing Rome's economy : Revelation and its reception in the Apostolic Fathers / Grant Macaskill -- By almsgiving and faith sins are purged? : the theological underpinnings of early Christian care for the poor / Christopher M. Hays -- Zacchaeus's half : ascetical economy in the Syriac Book of steps / Robert A. Kitchen -- Afterword / Bruce W. Longenecker.

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