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Author Schmidt, Thomas E.

Title Hostility to wealth in the Synoptic Gospels / Thomas E. Schmidt
Published Sheffield, England : JSOT Press, ©1987

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Description 1 online resource (250 pages)
Series Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series, 0143-5108 ; 15
Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 15. 0143-5108
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis Bible N.T Synoptic Gospels Special subjects: Wealth - Critical studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible. Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Gospels fast
Bibel Synoptische Evangelien gnd
Bibel Evangelien gnd
Subject Wealth -- Biblical teaching.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics.
Wealth -- Biblical teaching
Reichtum
Kritik
Synoptische evangeliën.
Rijkdom.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567435712
0567435717