Serving at the 'banking-tables' new light on Acts 2-8 and the link between spiritual and economic transformation
Dissertation, University of Birmingham, 2012
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Biblical interpretation series
volume 208 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, University of Birmingham, 2012 "Traditional exegesis divides scripture into two distinct economic models: the OT (Hebrew) model of blessing with a "surplus of prosperity", and the NT (Christian) model of economic collectivism with "all things in common". Using an economic perspective as an exegetical tool, the author demonstrates that this differentiation is an artificial construct. In particular, he argues that various NT Greek words and phrases in Acts, which have been rendered to describe acts of charity, should be reinterpreted to depict overtly commercial activities, including the possibility of a banking operation at the heart of the primitive church that posed a serious political and economic threat to the Jewish elite in first-century Jerusalem"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Birmingham, 2012, under the title: Hearing about Jesus, but thinking about Joel : exploring the biblical and historical relationship between spiritual and economic transformation |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 328 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9789004538122 978-90-04-53812-2 |