Consumption and wealth in Luke's travel narrative /
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Author / Creator: | Metzger, James A. |
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Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. 88 Biblical interpretation series ; v. 88. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205817 |
ISBN: | 9789047421740 9047421744 9789004162617 9004162615 |
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Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | "Several recent studies have suggested that the Gospel of Luke recommends generous almsgiving or a relatively benign sharing ethic that mimics existing redistributive measures in early Roman Palestine. Employing a real, situated, committed reader and drawing upon reader-response criticism, narratology, and intertextuality, this study argues that a much more subversive reading of the Gospel's wealth and possessions traditions is defensible. It is suggested that because persons with access to a large surplus too often elect to spend extravagantly on their own desires and existing means of redistribution such as almsgiving and beneficence were failing to offer any lasting changes that might truly be received as "good news" by the poor, Jesus advocates eliminating personal wealth."--Jacket. |
Other form: | Print version: Metzger, James A. Consumption and wealth in Luke's travel narrative. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 9789004162617 |
Standard no.: | 10.1163/ej.9789004162617.i-217 |
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