Seeking the Imperishable Treasure: Wealth, Wisdom, and a Jesus Saying - Couverture souple

Johnson, Steven R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1556352441 ISBN 13 : 9781556352447

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

In Seeking the Imperishable Treasure, Johnson tracks the use of a single saying of Jesus over time and among theologically divergent authors and communities. He identifies six different versions of the saying in the canonical gospels and epistles (Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, James, and Colossians), as well as the Gospel of Thomas and Q. After tracing the tradition and redaction history of this wisdom admonition, he observes at least two distinctly different wisdom themes that are applied to the saying: the proper disposition of wealth and the search for knowledge, wisdom, or God. What he discovers is a saying of Jesus--with roots in Jewish wisdom and pietistic traditions, as well as popular Greek philosophy--that proved amazingly adaptable in its application to differing social and rhetorical contexts of the first century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Steven R. Johnson is Associate Professor of Religion at Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania). He is a managing editor of the International Q Project and is the author and editor of Q 7:1-10: The Centurion's Faith in Jesus' Word and Q 12:33-34: Storing up Treasures in Heaven (forthcoming).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1556352441
• ISBN 13: 9781556352447
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible