Publication

2020 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

50,000 words, Guess

Page Count

200 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780567695819
  • ISBN-100567695816
  • Library of Congress Control Number2020022555
  • OCLC Control Number1164827606
  • Better World Books9780567695819
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBS2625.6.P696N63
  • LCCBS2625.6.P696

Description

"Joshua Noble focuses on the rapid appearance and disappearance in Acts 2 and 4 of the motif that early believers hold all their property in common, and argues that these descriptions function as allusions to the Golden Age myth. Noble suggests Luke's claims that the believers "had all things in common" and that "no one claimed private ownership of any possessions" - a motif that does not appear in any biblical source - rather calls to mind Greek and Roman traditions that the earliest humans lived in utopian conditions, when "no one ... possessed any private property, but all things were common.""--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Common Property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2 : 42-47 And 4: 32-35Bloomsbury Publishing Plc2020-01-01

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