Serving at the 'Banking-Tables'

New Light on Acts 2-8 and the Link Between Spiritual and Economic Transformation
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53812-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 208, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

Traditional exegesis divides scripture into two distinct economic models: the OT (Hebrew) model of blessing with a “surplus of prosperity”, and the NT (Christian) model of economic collectivism with “all things in common”. Using an economic perspective as an exegetical tool, the author demonstrates that this differentiation is an artificial construct. In particular, he argues that various NT Greek words and phrases in Acts, which have been rendered to describe acts of charity, should be reinterpreted to depict overtly commercial activities, including the possibility of a banking operation at the heart of the primitive church that posed a serious political and economic threat to the Jewish elite in first-century Jerusalem.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison-Mills, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas Harrison-Mills, Ph.D. (2012), University of Birmingham (UK), is an investment banker and independent scholar. He has been publishing his innovative biblical research for many years using the internet platform of Ourfathers.biz, which included a regular ‘e-pistle’ sent to Christian business and political professionals around the world.