Seeking the Imperishable Treasure
Wealth, Wisdom, and a Jesus Saying
Published on 25. June 2015
200 pages
978-0-227-90346-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book tracks the use of a single saying of Jesus over time and among theologically divergent authors and communities and identifies six different versions of the saying in the canonical gospels and epistles, as well as "The Gospel of Thomas and Q". After tracing the tradition and redaction history of this wisdom admonition, the author observes at least two distinctly different wisdom themes that are applied to the saying: the proper disposition of wealth and the search for knowledge, wisdom, or God. What he discovers is a saying of Jesus with roots in Jewish wisdom and pietistic traditions, as well as popular Greek philosophy that proved amazingly adaptable in its application to differing social and rhetorical contexts of the first century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
File size
1,90 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-227-90346-9 (9780227903469)
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06/2010
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Person
Steven R. Johnson is Associate Professor of Religion at Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania). He is Managing Editor of the 'International Q Project' and is the author and editor of 'Q 7:1-10: The Centurion's Faith in Jesus' Word' and 'Q 12:33-34: Storing up Treasures in Heaven'
Content
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Introduction; The Synoptics and Q; John, Thomas, and Luke; James and Colossians; Inferences and Reconstruction of an Archetype; Conclusion; Appendix: Reconstructed Text of Q 12:33; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Documents.
