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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...

rhetorical constructs of this kind are illegitimate economic indicators in the reconstruction of ancient economic situations. The ancient elite usually “collapse the categories [of non-elite economic status] into one,” according to Greg Woolf, and thereby offer little sense of “the gradations of poverty” that characterized their world.21 If a rigid binary model is unhelpful for economic reconstructions of the Greco-Roman world, other
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