Numismatic Insights into Pauline Ethics: ΕΥΕΡΓ- on Roman Provincial, Parthian and Seleucid Coinage
Numismatic inscriptional evidence consistently employs the ΕΥΕΡΓ- word group in describing a superior providing some material public benefit to an inferior, typically an entire city, nation or kingdom. This is evidenced in the present study's comprehensive survey of several hundred numismatic t...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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New Testament studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 69, Issue: 3, Pages: 313-331 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Inscription
/ Coin
/ Ethics
/ Lexicography
/ Numismatics
/ Bible. Timotheusbrief 1. 6,1-2
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IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HH Archaeology KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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Summary: | Numismatic inscriptional evidence consistently employs the ΕΥΕΡΓ- word group in describing a superior providing some material public benefit to an inferior, typically an entire city, nation or kingdom. This is evidenced in the present study's comprehensive survey of several hundred numismatic types, extant in many thousands of specimens from the second century bce to the first century ce. Within this context, 1 Timothy 6.2 is discussed, wherein it is noted that the apparent identification of a slave's labour as ɛὐɛργɛσία not only heightens the significance and value of that service but is a deliberate inversion of expected social and linguistic norms. |
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ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688522000339 |