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Alms : charity, reward, and atonement in early Christianity / David J. Downs

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2016]Description: ix, 340 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781602589971
  • 1602589976
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 225.9 DOWA 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4639 .D69 2016
Contents:
Introduction: What can wash away my sin? -- Redeem your sins with acts of mercy : charity and reward in the Hebrew-Aramaic Bible and its Greek translation -- Merciful deeds deliver from death : charity and reward in the Apocrypha -- I desire mercy, not sacrifice : cult criticism and atoning almsgiving? -- Give alms with respect to the things within : charity and reward in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts -- Storing up treasure for a good foundation : almsgiving and reward in the Pauline Epistles -- Love covers a multitude of sins : atoning almsgiving in 1 Peter 4:8 and its early Christian reception -- Merciful practice is good as repentance for sin : resurrection, atonement, and care for the poor in second-century Christianity -- By alms and faith sins are purged away : almsgiving and atonement in early Christian scriptural exegesis
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-324) and index

Introduction: What can wash away my sin? -- Redeem your sins with acts of mercy : charity and reward in the Hebrew-Aramaic Bible and its Greek translation -- Merciful deeds deliver from death : charity and reward in the Apocrypha -- I desire mercy, not sacrifice : cult criticism and atoning almsgiving? -- Give alms with respect to the things within : charity and reward in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts -- Storing up treasure for a good foundation : almsgiving and reward in the Pauline Epistles -- Love covers a multitude of sins : atoning almsgiving in 1 Peter 4:8 and its early Christian reception -- Merciful practice is good as repentance for sin : resurrection, atonement, and care for the poor in second-century Christianity -- By alms and faith sins are purged away : almsgiving and atonement in early Christian scriptural exegesis

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