TY - BOOK AU - Longenecker,Bruce W. AU - Liebengood,Kelly D. TI - Engaging economics: New Testament scenarios and early Christian reception SN - 9780802864147 AV - BR115.L716.E543 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company KW - Bible KW - New Testament KW - Economics KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Economics in the Bible N1 - 1 and indexes; Introduction; Bruce W. Longenecker and Kelly D. Liebengood --; Methodological issues in using economic evidence in interpretation of early Christian texts; Peter Oakes --; New Testament scenarios --; Money matters : economic relations and the transformation of value in early Christianity; Stephen C. Barton --; Jesus, virtuoso religion, and the community of goods; Brian J. Capper --; The spirit and the "other," Satan and the "self" : economic ethics as a consequence of identity transformation in Luke-Acts; Aaron J. Kuecker --; Agrarian discourse and the sayings of Jesus : "measure for measure" in Gospel traditions and agricultural practices; John S. Kloppenborg --; Was God Paul's patron? : the economy of patronage in Pauline theology; David J. Downs --; The economics of humility : the rich and the humble in James; Mariam Kamell --; Aliens and strangers? : the socioeconomic location of the addressees of 1 Peter; David G. Horrell --; Early Christian reception --; The poor of Galatians 2:10 : the interpretative paradigm of the first four centuries; Bruce W. Longenecker --; Tertullian on widows : a North African appropriation of Pauline household economics; David E. Wilhite --; Critiquing Rome's economy : Revelation and its reception in the Apostolic Fathers; Grant Macaskill --; By almsgiving and faith sins are purged? : the theological underpinnings of early Christian care for the poor; Christopher M. Hays --; Zacchaeus's half : ascetical economy in the Syriac Book of steps; Robert A. Kitchen --; Afterword; Bruce W. Longenecker; 2 N2 - 'Emerging Economics' reveals the economic dimentisons of the theology of the early Jesus movement and explains how this is reflected in the texts of the New Testament and the reception of those texts within the patristic era ER -