Common property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-35
"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 al...
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Formato: | Libro |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
T&T Clark
[2021]
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Edición: | First published in Great Britain 2021 |
Colección: | The library of New Testament studies,
636 |
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Sumario: | "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.""-- |
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Descripción Física: | 180 páginas |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780567695819 |