TY  - BOOK
AU  - Longenecker, Bruce W
TI  - Engaging Economics:  New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception
SN  - 9780802864147
U1  - B85 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Michigan
PB  - William B.Eerdmans Publishing Co
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1.  Introduction  Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood  2.  Methodological Issues in Using Economic Evidence in Interpretation of Early Christian Texts  Peter Oakes  NEW TESTAMENT SCENARIOS  3. Money Matters: Economic Relations and the Transformation of Value in Early Christianity  Stephen C. Barton  4.  Jesus, Virtuoso Religion, and the Community of Goods   Brian ]. Capper  5. The Spirit and the "Other," Satan and the "Self": Economic Ethics as a Consequence of Identity Transformation in Luke-Acts  Aaron J. Kuecker  6.  Agrarian Discourse and the Sayings of Jesus: "Measure for Measure" in Gospel Traditions and Agricultural Practices  John S. Kloppenborg  7.  Is God Paul`s Patron? The Economy of Patronage in Pauline Theology  David J. Downs  8.  The Economics of Humility: The Rich and the Humble in James  Mariam Kamell  9.  Aliens and Strangers? The Socioeconomic Location of the Addressees of i Peter  David G. Horrell  EARLY CHRISTIAN RECEPTION  10.  The Poor of Galatians 2:10: The Interpretative Paradigm of the First Four Centuries	  Bruce W. Longenecker  11.  Tertullian on Widows: A North African Appropriation of Pauline Household Economics	  David E. Wilhite  12.   Critiquing Rome`s Economy: Revelation and Its Reception in the Apostolic Fathers	  Grant Macaskill  13.  By Almsgiving and Faith Sins Are Purged? The Theological Underpinnings of Early Christian Care for the Poor	  Christopher M. Hays  14.  Zacchaeus`s Half: Ascetical Economy in the Syriac Book of Steps       Robert A. Kitchen  15.  Afterword  Bruce W. Longenecker
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