Restricted Generosity in the New Testament
1st Edition
Published on 18. March 2019
275 pages
978-3-16-156475-8 (ISBN)
Description
Die Bedeutung von Großzügigkeit im frühen Christentum wurde in der neutestamentlichen Forschung bereits bewiesen. Von diesem Konsens ausgehend untersucht Timothy J. Murray die neutestamentlichen Texte auf Nachweise wann, wie und warum die frühen Christen ihre Großzügigkeit
begrenzten
. Nachdem er auch die begrenzte Großzügigkeit ähnlicher sozialer Strukturen (jüdische Gruppierungen, griechisch-römische Vereinigungen und die hellenistischen
oikos
) untersucht, behauptet der Autor, dass das Selbstverständnis der frühen Christen als Mitgliedern einer fiktiven Familie der stärkste Einfluss auf ihre Ausübung materieller Großzügigkeit und deren Einschränkung war, da sie stark von den geltenden kulturellen Idealen bezüglich der Gegenseitigkeit in der Familie und deren Unterstützung beeinflusst wurden. Außerdem spricht der Autor sich gegen die vorherrschende Meinung aus, dass nachweisbare organisierte Armenhilfe in jüdischen Gemeinden dürftig und nicht-existent sind in Bezug auf griechisch-römische Vereinigungen.
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Born 1988; 2012 MA Biblical Interpretation from London School of Theology; 2014 MRes Biblical Studies from University of Nottingham; 2017 PhD New Testament from University of Nottingham; 2015-17 teaching associate at University of Nottingham; since 2017 Academic Tutor at Queens College Birmingham and Pastor at Amblecote Christian Centre.
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Content
- Cover
- Titel
- Preface
- Table of Content
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: Restricted Generosity in the New Testament in its Academic Context
- 1.1. The development of New Testament ethics
- 1.2. Wealth ethics in New Testament ethics
- 1.3. New Testament wealth ethics
- 1.3.1. 'Ethic' or 'ethics' of the New Testament
- 1.3.2. The appropriate object of study: the ethics of the texts and the ethos of the community
- 1.3.3. Ruben Zimmermann's "implicit ethics"
- 1.4. The argument and contributions of this study
- Part I: Restricted Generosity in Comparable First-Century Social Structures
- 2. An Introduction to Comparable Social Structures
- 2.1. Which social structures should the early church be compared with?
- 2.1.1. Why not the philosophical schools and the mystery religions?
- 3. Restricted Generosity in the Roman Household
- 3.1. The early church and the oikos
- 3.2. The oikos and generosity in early Hellenistic literature
- 3.3. Restricted generosity in the Roman oikos
- 3.3.1. Pietas in the Roman oikos
- 3.3.2. Restrictions on generosity in the Roman family
- 3.3.3. Excursus - the relevance of the law to the first Christians
- 3.3.4. Summary
- 3.3.5. Qualifying considerations: the Roman family in the wider empire
- 3.3.6. Qualifying considerations: the Roman family and Jewish families
- 4. Restricted Generosity in Greco-Roman Associations
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.1.1. Definition
- 4.1.2. The validity of using associations as a comparative model
- 4.1.3. What groups are included in 'associations'?
- 4.1.4. Jewish groups
- 4.1.5. Evidence
- 4.2. Association finances - an overview
- 4.2.1. Sources of income
- 4.2.2. Uses of money
- 4.3. Restrictions on use of money
- 4.3.1. The wishes of a benefactor
- 4.3.2. Breaking association rules
- 4.3.3. The solvency of an association
- 4.4. Care of members in associations?
- 4.4.1. Evidence that associations cared for their "poor" members
- 4.4.2. Arguments against care of members in associations
- 4.5. Summary
- 5. Care of the Poor in First-Century Jewish Groups?
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Evidence commonly adduced for poor-care in first century Jewish groups
- 5.2.1. Literary sources
- 5.2.2. Non-literary
- 5.3. Evidence rarely adduced for poor-care in first century Jewish groups
- 5.3.1. Papyri
- 5.3.2. Roman literature: Jewish beggars and the p??se???
- 5.3.3. The Qumran community and the Essenes
- 5.4. Dead ends and loud silences
- 5.4.1. Philo
- 5.4.2. Other sources
- 5.5. Summary
- Part II: Restricted Generosity in the New Testament
- 6. Fictive Kinship and Social Reality in the New Testament
- 6.1. Implications of oikos language in the whole New Testament: The church-as-family as a redefinition of oikos
- 6.2. Specific texts possibly linking the church-as-oikos with economic issues
- 6.2.1. Mark 10.28-31
- 6.2.2. Matthew 25.31-46
- 6.2.3. Romans 12.9-13
- 6.2.4. Hebrews 13.1-6
- 6.2.5. Galatians 6.10
- 6.2.6. 1 John 3.17
- 6.2.7. 1 Thessalonians 4.9-12 and 1 Timothy 5.3-16
- 6.2.8. Indicative references
- 6.3. Excursus - evidence outside the New Testament
- 6.4. Summary
- 6.5. Implications: fictive-kinship and material solidarity as restricted generosity
- 7. Restricted Generosity in the Thessalonian Correspondence
- 7.1. The authenticity of, and relationship between, 1 and 2 Thessalonians
- 7.2. The problem in Thessalonica
- 7.2.1. Eschatological beliefs
- 7.2.2. Social dynamics
- 7.2.3. Missional privilege
- 7.2.4. None of the above
- 7.3. Implicit ethics in the Thessalonian correspondence
- 7.3.1. 1 Thessalonians 4.9-12
- 7.3.2. 1 Thessalonians 5.12-15
- 7.3.3. 2 Thessalonians 3.6-16
- 7.3.4. Summary
- 7.4. The Thessalonian problem - what can be said?
- 7.4.1. Eschatological beliefs
- 7.4.2. Social dynamics
- 7.4.3. Missional privilege
- 7.4.4. The 'problem' as the simple abuse of f??ade?f?a
- 7.5. Summary
- 8. Restricted Generosity in 1 Timothy 5.3-16
- 8.1. Current interpretive options
- 8.1.1. An order of widows
- 8.1.2. A benefit register
- 8.1.3. Harmonisation
- 8.2. Methodological issues
- 8.3. Implicit ethics in 1 Timothy 5.3-16
- 8.3.1. Linguistic form
- 8.3.2. Norms and values
- 8.3.3. The text
- 8.3.4. Excursus - B. Winter's thesis concerning "New Women"
- 8.4. Summative discussions
- 8.4.1. The structure of 1 Timothy 5.3-16
- 8.4.2. Benefit register or a widows' order
- 8.4.3. The problem and its solution
- 8.5. Summary
- 9. Summary and Conclusions
- Appendix: A survey of metaphorical oikos language in the New Testament
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Subjects
