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Theories of Poverty in the World of the New Testament

by David J. Armitage

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 15.5 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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David J. Armitage explores interpretations of poverty in the Greco-Roman and Jewish contexts of the New Testament, and, in the light of this, considers how approaches to poverty in the New Testament texts may be regarded as distinctive. Explanations for the plight of the poor and supposed solutions to the problem of poverty are discussed, noting the importance in Greco-Roman settings of questions about poverty's relation to virtue and vice, and the roles of fate and chance in impoverishment. Such debates were peripheral for strands of the Jewish tradition where poverty discourse was shaped by narrative frameworks incorporating transgression, curse, and the anticipated rescue of the righteous poor. These elements occur in New Testament texts, which endorse wider Jewish concern for the poor while reconfiguring hope for the end of poverty around an inaugurated eschatology centred on Jesus.
Theories of Poverty in the World of the New Testament and John for Everyone Part 1 : Chapters 1-10
John for Everyone Part 1 : Chapters 1-10Theories of Poverty in the World of the New Testament
  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    September 2016

  • Weight

    477g

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161543999

  • ISBN-10

    3161543998

  • Eden Code

    4708167

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