Engaging economics
Subtitle: New Testament scenarios and early Christian reception
By: edited by Bruce W. Longenecker & Kelly D. Liebengood.
Contributors: Longenecker, Bruce W.; Liebengood, Kelly D., 1970-
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780802864147
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Economics in the Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood; title: Methodological issues in using economic evidence in interpretation of early Christian texts / Peter Oakes; title: New Testament scenarios; title: Money matters : economic relations and the transformation of value in early Christianity / Stephen C. Barton; title: Jesus, virtuoso religion, and the community of goods / Brian J. Capper; title: The spirit and the "other," Satan and the "self" : economic ethics as a consequence of identity transformation in Luke-Acts / Aaron J. Kuecker; title: Agrarian discourse and the sayings of Jesus : "measure for measure" in Gospel traditions and agricultural practices / John S. Kloppenborg; title: Was God Paul's patron? : the economy of patronage in Pauline theology / David J. Downs; title: The economics of humility : the rich and the humble in James / Mariam Kamell; title: Aliens and strangers? : the socioeconomic location of the addressees of 1 Peter / David G. Horrell; title: Early Christian reception; title: The poor of Galatians 2:10 : the interpretative paradigm of the first four centuries / Bruce W. Longenecker; title: Tertullian on widows : a North African appropriation of Pauline household economics / David E. Wilhite; title: Critiquing Rome's economy : Revelation and its reception in the Apostolic Fathers / Grant Macaskill; title: By almsgiving and faith sins are purged? : the theological underpinnings of early Christian care for the poor / Christopher M. Hays; title: Zacchaeus's half : ascetical economy in the Syriac Book of steps / Robert A. Kitchen; title: Afterword / Bruce W. Longenecker.