A Spiritual Economy
eBook - PDF

A Spiritual Economy

Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Spiritual Economy

Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. One Introduction
  4. Two Symbolic Goods as Media of Exchange in Paul’s Gift Economy
  5. Three The Benefactor’s Account Book: The Rhetoric of Gift Reciprocation According to Seneca and Paul
  6. Four Gift or Commodity? On the Classification of Paul’s Unremunerated Labor
  7. Five Classification and Social Relations: The Dark Side of the Gift
  8. Six The Gift of Status
  9. Seven Spiritual Gifts and Status Inversion
  10. Eight Summary and Conclusions
  11. Appendix: Letters and Events Significantly Shaping Paul’s Relations with the Corinthian Assembly: A Relative Chronology
  12. Abbreviations
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index of Subjects
  16. Index of Modern Authors
  17. Index of Biblical and Early Jewish Sources
  18. Index of Greek and Roman Sources