TY - GEN T1 - Group survival in the ancient Mediterranean : rethinking material conditions in the landscape of Jews and Christians A1 - Last, Richard A1 - Harland, Philip A. LA - English PP - London PB - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1138672648 AB - "Philip A. Harland and Richard Last consider the economics of early Christian group life within its social, cultural and economic contexts, by drawing on extensive epigraphic and archaeological evidence. In exploring the informal associations, immigrant groups, and guilds that dotted the world of the early Christians, Harland and Last provide fresh perspective on the question of how Christian assemblies and Judean/Jewish gatherings gained necessary resources to pursue their social, religious, and additional aims. By considering both neglected archaeological discoveries and literary evidence, the authors analyse financial and material aspects of group life, both sources of income and various areas of expenditure. Harland and Last then turn to the use of material resources for mutual support of members in various groups, including the importance of burial and the practice of interest-free loans. Christian and Judean evidence is explored throughout this book, culminating in a discussion of texts detailing the internal financial life of Christian assemblies as seen in first and second century sources, including Paul, the Didache, Justin Martyr, and Tertullian. In shedding new light on early Christian financial organisation, this volume aids further understanding of how some Christian groups survived and developed in the Greco-Roman world."-- OP - 230 CN - BR129 .L385 2020eb SN - 0567657493 SN - 9780567657497 SN - 9780567657480 KW - Christianity : Mediterranean Region : Origin. KW - Church history. KW - Church history : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. KW - Judaism : Mediterranean Region : History. KW - Église : Histoire. KW - Église : Histoire : ca 30-600 (Église primitive) KW - church history. KW - Biblical studies & exegesis. KW - Church history KW - Christianity : Origin KW - Church history : Primitive and early church KW - Judaism KW - Mediterranean Region KW - 30-600 KW - History ER -