‘According to the Commandment’ (Did. 1.5): Lexical Reflections on Almsgiving as ‘The Commandment’

Christian and Jewish sources of late antiquity employ ἡ ἐντολή as a term for almsgiving. The development of the locution passes through at least two stages before reaching semantic maturity around the fourth or fifth century. Tobit and Ben Sira record the early notion of charity as a paradigmatic pr...

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Main Author: Giambrone, Anthony 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2014
In: New Testament studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 448-465
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Didache 1,5 / Alms / Bible. Timotheusbrief 1. 6,14
Further subjects:B 1 Timothy
B commandment
B Almsgiving
B Didache
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