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Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and the Greco-Roman World is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many scholars engaged in exploring the economic dimensions of early Christianity simply don’t bother with Paul, mistakenly believing that he had little regard for the poor and that his theological deliberations therefore have little relevance to studies of wealth and poverty in the Greco-Roman world. In Remember the Poor, Bruce Longenecker counters this view, arguing persuasively that care for...

significant slippage in their use of terms pertaining to poverty, scholarly discourse needs to be extra vigilant in arriving at conceptual precision. It is for this reason that the heuristic exercise of devising an economy scale pertaining to ancient data will prove to be helpful, even necessary, to assist in contemporary discourse about Greco-Roman economic stratification. Establishing a heuristic economic scale offers the potential of grounding scholarly discourse in a workable taxonomy from which
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