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Theories of poverty in the world of the New Testament / David J. Armitage.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; ; 423.Description: xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9783161543999
  • 3161543998
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 225.04 23
Contents:
Purpose and context -- Methodology and concepts -- Poverty in Greco-Roman formative tradition -- Chance and vice: poverty in Plutarch -- The irrelevance of poverty: Stoic and Cynic perspectives -- Perspectives on poverty in the Hebrew Bible -- Poverty discourse in later Second Temple Judaism: divergent trajectories -- Poverty in the New Testament: origins and resolution -- Responses to poverty in the New Testament.
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Nottingham, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Purpose and context -- Methodology and concepts -- Poverty in Greco-Roman formative tradition -- Chance and vice: poverty in Plutarch -- The irrelevance of poverty: Stoic and Cynic perspectives -- Perspectives on poverty in the Hebrew Bible -- Poverty discourse in later Second Temple Judaism: divergent trajectories -- Poverty in the New Testament: origins and resolution -- Responses to poverty in the New Testament.