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Hostility to wealth in the Synoptic Gospels

The argument of this interesting monograph is that hostility to wealth exists independently of socio-economic circumstances as a fundamental religious-ethical tenet consistently expressed in the Synoptic Gospels. Part one offers a critique of the view that economic conditions determined the origin and/or extant form of the relevant texts. Part two considers the ideological background of the Synoptic teaching by tracing the development of the tradition from the earliest written sources to the New Testament era. Five stages locate expressions of hostility to wealth in logical and general chronol
eBook, English, ©1987
JSOT Press, Sheffield, England, ©1987
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (250 pages)
9780567435712, 0567435717
741690111
Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: HOSTILITY TO WEALTH AND SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD; Chapter 1: Socio-economic Circumstances in First-Century Palestine; Chapter 2: Socio-economic Circumstances and Sociological Method; PART II: HOSTILITY TO WEALTH AS A DEVELOPING TRADITION; Chapter 3: Ancient Near Eastern Material; Chapter 4: Jewish Canonical Material; Chapter 5: Jewish Noncanonical Material; PART III: HOSTILITY TO WEALTH IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS; Chapter 6: Hostility to Wealth in the Gospel of Mark. Chapter 7: Hostility to Wealth in the Gospel of MatthewChapter 8: Hostility to Wealth in the Gospel of Luke; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010