At the time of the redaction of the New Testament (NT), the relatively newly constituted Roman Empire seems to have brought some sort of political uniformity to the whole Mediterranean world. This phenomenon must have had some kind of financial repercussions due to a more centralized administration and a relatively larger diffusion of a standardized monetary system. Can we understand if this had any impact on the preaching of (the historical) Jesus? Did his early followers have the memory of any teaching of his regarding money, its possession or its use? And, in the times and areas they were living in, did they develop any reflection on these subjects, which can testify to the new economic situation
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“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. ” There is har...
Research on the economic context of Jesus teaching on wealth and exchange points to the need to tak...
Early Christian views of money (economics) do not materially differ from those of ancient Jews or Gr...
As many ancient sources demonstrate, tax-collectors were not well-regarded in antiquity, and thus th...
The article presents how three great Alexandrian writers (Clemens, Origen and Didymus the Blind) est...
Concepts such as money and wealth in general changed greatly in the Middle Ages. On the one hand th...
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The Jews used bars and rings of gold and silver as money prior to using coins. Syrian, Roman, and Je...
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