Common Property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-35 / by Joshua Noble.

By:

Noble, Joshua [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Library of New Testament Studies ; 636Publisher: London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2021Description: 180 pContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780567695819

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Common property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-35DDC classification:

B70.1 23 J826

LOC classification:

BS2625.6.P696 N63 2020

Summary: "Joshua Noble focuses on the rapid appearance and disappearance in Acts 2 and 4 of the motif that early believers hold all their property in common, and argues that these descriptions function as allusions to the Golden Age myth. Noble suggests Luke's claims that the believers "had all things in common" and that "no one claimed private ownership of any possessions" - a motif that does not appear in any biblical source - rather calls to mind Greek and Roman traditions that the earliest humans lived in utopian conditions, when "no one ... possessed any private property, but all things were common.""-- Provided by publisher.

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Reference	DVK Library Reference -> Ground Floor -> B	B70.1 J826 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		11070925

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Joshua Noble focuses on the rapid appearance and disappearance in Acts 2 and 4 of the motif that early believers hold all their property in common, and argues that these descriptions function as allusions to the Golden Age myth. Noble suggests Luke's claims that the believers "had all things in common" and that "no one claimed private ownership of any possessions" - a motif that does not appear in any biblical source - rather calls to mind Greek and Roman traditions that the earliest humans lived in utopian conditions, when "no one ... possessed any private property, but all things were common.""-- Provided by publisher.

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