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Author: Peter Oakes Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 1467460036 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 297
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Peter Oakes has long been recognized for his illuminating use of Greco-Roman material culture and social-scientific criticism to interpret the New Testament. This volume brings together his best work and introduces a substantial new essay that challenges current scholarly approaches to paradoxical teachings of the New Testament. Of special interest to Oakes throughout this book is the concrete impact of economic realities and Roman imperialism on first-century Christian communities meeting in house churches. To address this, Oakes considers an array of textual and archaeological resources from first-century non-elite life, including extensive archaeological evidence available from Pompeii. Readers will find here a deep trove of wisdom for understanding the New Testament in the context of the Greco-Roman world.
Author: Peter Oakes Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 1467460036 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
Peter Oakes has long been recognized for his illuminating use of Greco-Roman material culture and social-scientific criticism to interpret the New Testament. This volume brings together his best work and introduces a substantial new essay that challenges current scholarly approaches to paradoxical teachings of the New Testament. Of special interest to Oakes throughout this book is the concrete impact of economic realities and Roman imperialism on first-century Christian communities meeting in house churches. To address this, Oakes considers an array of textual and archaeological resources from first-century non-elite life, including extensive archaeological evidence available from Pompeii. Readers will find here a deep trove of wisdom for understanding the New Testament in the context of the Greco-Roman world.
Author: Bruce W. Longenecker Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 0802864147 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 345
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'Emerging Economics' reveals the economic dimentisons of the theology of the early Jesus movement & explains how this is reflected in the texts of the New Testament & the reception of those texts within the patristic era.
Author: David A Fiensy Publisher: James Clarke & Company ISBN: 0227902866 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 239
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What does economics have to do with Christian origins? Why study such a connection? First of all, the New Testament makes many direct references to economic issues. But, second of all, the economy affects every other aspect of life (family, religion, community, work, health, and politics). How prosperous was first-century Galilee? To understand what it was like to live in a society, one must understand its economy. The study of the economy includes not only the goods and services of the society but also human labor and its control. The study must also take into account how fair the economy was to each family. Those involved in the quest for the historical Jesus have discovered that the ancient economy is a major point of dispute among various interpreters. Was the early Jesus movement a socioeconomic protest? Or was it primarily a religious reform? These two approaches understand Jesus in remarkably different ways. This volume seeks to guide readers through some of the most controversial issues raised inthe last twenty years on this important topic.
Author: Matthew J. M. Coomber Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1532657986 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 340
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Over the past few decades biblical economics has developed into an important subfield of biblical studies. Through examining the economic realities that lay behind Hebrew biblical texts and archaeological findings, biblical economics has led to greater understandings of the cultures and experiences of ancient Hebrew communities, the legal and religious texts they produced, and of how those texts may or may not relate to the experiences of communities who continue to receive them, today. Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East has brought together ten scholars of biblical economics and one economic anthropologist to create a repository of what is understood about the economic realities of Southwest Asia in the late second and first millennia BCE. In addition to furthering the research and teaching interests of biblical scholars, this volume has also been created for the benefit of economic historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
Author: MICHAEL. HUDSON Publisher: ISBN: 9783981826029 Category : Languages : en Pages : 336
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An epic journey through the economies of ancient civilizations, and how they managed debt versus social instability. Shocking historical truths about how debt played a central role in shaping (or destroying) ancient societies (viz: Rome), and that the Bible is preoccupied with debt, not sin, which has been disturbingly inverted in modern times.
Author: Roland Boer Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press ISBN: 1611645557 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 570
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The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel offers a new reconstruction of the economic context of the Bible and of ancient Israel. It argues that the key to ancient economies is with those who worked on the land rather than in intermittent and relatively weak kingdoms and empires. Drawing on sophisticated economic theory (especially the Régulation School) and textual and archaeological resources, Roland Boer makes it clear that economic “crisis†was the norm and that economics is always socially determined. He examines three economic layers: the building blocks (five institutional forms), periods of relative stability (three regimes), and the overarching mode of production. Ultimately, the most resilient of all the regimes was subsistence survival, for which the regular collapse of kingdoms and empires was a blessing rather than a curse. Students will come away with a clear understanding of the dynamics of the economy of ancient Israel. Boer's volume should become a new benchmark for future studies.
Author: Warren Carter Publisher: Orbis Books ISBN: 1570753245 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 841
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A controversial take on the Gospel of Matthew applies the text to history and discusses its implications for political power and spirituality. Original.
Author: Thomas R. Blanton IV Publisher: Fortress Press ISBN: 1506406041 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 473
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The social context of Paul’s mission and congregations has been the study of intense investigation for decades, but only in recent years have questions of economic realities and the relationship between rich and poor come to the forefront. In Paul and Economics, leading scholars address a variety of topics in contemporary discussion, including an overview of the Roman economy; the economic profile of Paul and of his communities, and stratification within them; architectural considerations regarding where they met; food and drink; idol meat and the Lord’s Supper; material conditions of urban poverty; patronage; slavery; travel; gender and status; the collection for Jerusalem; and the role of Marxist theory and the question of political economy in Paul scholarship.
Author: Steven Richards Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 180
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Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building...Luke 17:28A study of the economic activity in the first four books of the New Testament, this little book presents a view of the Gospel Economy and with it analogies to current day mixed economies and Capital-ism. It is meant to paint a picture of Jesus and his followers as economic participants in the Roman society they found themselves. In so doing, it is a presentation of Jesus as a man rarely, if ever, examined. In this book Jesus is not so much the Son of God, but rather just a son.The economy we see in the Gospels, when broken down and analogized to today, seems familiar in many ways. It's easier in some ways to notice the things that aren't there. But what we see is that much of what we take for granted was there, albeit in more simple states: Agriculture? Check. Housing? Check. Lawyers? Of course. Lamps, musical instruments, tables, chairs, curtains, garments, jars, spices, servants, linens, coins, plenty of bread, wine, etc. are all mentioned.What's not there? - too much to mention. For instance we can identify no wheeled vehicles, no chariots or wagons. Even horses aren't mentioned, aside from the occasional colt. So, no cars, planes, superhighways, skyscrapers, and a million other things.What you would see if you had wandered around with Jesus would be a world with lots of housing, roads, boats, buildings, crop filled fields, markets, vineyards, etc. He and his disciples appear to have lived simply. From what we can read He lived on a diet of bread, fish, water and wine, with an occasional fig. As pigs and other live-stock are mentioned we can extrapolate that there was meat in the diet so, again, it's not hard to place oneself in the time - and feeling right at home. Eggs are also mentioned so a breakfast of eggs, ba-con and toast could well have been put together.Many professions and jobs are mentioned in the Gospels, most all of which are still around today. Management and capital are also exhibited. There were definitely some very rich people about, and they tended to be mentioned as landowners. Property management skills are prized, as we see in the parables.The Gospels don't really complain too much about how unfair the system is - not surprisingly perhaps as Jesus' message was so focused on a heavenly kingdom - not a kingdom (or empire) - of this world. Instead the rich are spoken to in ways that are more warning than envy. The poor are well represented - there were obviously many. They also appear to be accepted as part of the society, and left to fend for themselves. There is no safety net to be discerned though we can perhaps see the roots of one as taking care of women and children especially were of the utmost importance to Him. It is, in the end, a book about economics and the study of the Gospels provides "nuggets" of relevant economic commentary - some of the earliest Jewish thought on money that the world has. The economic lessons are not paramount to the writers, for the most part - and yet there they are. So obvious, and yet largely over-looked.About the AuthorSteve Richards put this study together over several years and finished it while studying theology and economics at Yale from 2013-2016. He is also an entrepreneur focused on helping people choose the best option when presented with lump sum elections. He ex-plains that he is half-missionary and half-mercenary.He developed the missionary side via his environmentalist leanings with his daughter. He began a return to church when she was a child and found himself wondering how Jesus had ever become central to a religion that was at the heart of our economic system, while being such a poor example of a capitalist. It remains a mystery.
Author: Peter Oakes
Author: Peter Oakes
Author: Bruce W. Longenecker
Author: David A Fiensy
Author: Matthew J. M. Coomber
Author: Frederick Clifton Grant
Author: MICHAEL. HUDSON
Author: Roland Boer
Author: Warren Carter
Author: Thomas R. Blanton IV
Author: Steven Richards