Paul, Poverty and Survival (SNTW)

by Justin Meggitt

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 1998

Overview

Meggitt examines the economic and social life of Pauline churches. His work presents to us the lives and minds of the earliest Christians and contributes to our understanding of the origins of Christianity. He further explores the nature of the Roman economy and the lives of those living in the first-century Mediterranean world. Some of the aspects he focuses on are: employment, nutrition, clothing and housing. In disclosing the Pauline church’s strategies for survival, Meggitt is able to draw on many background sources for the first time in this kind of study.

Product Details

• Title: Paul, Poverty and Survival
• Author: Justin J. Meggitt
• Series: Studies of the New Testament and its World (SNTW)
• Publisher: T & T Clark
• Publication Date: 1998
• Pages: 274

About Justin Meggitt

Justin J. Meggitt has been a British Academy Research Fellow in the Faculty of Divinity, and Fellow Commoner of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. He joined the Institute of Continuing Education at Cambridge in 2004. He is most interested in early Christianity in its social context. He is the author of the chapter Sources: Use, Abuse and Neglect in Christianity at Corinth: The Scholarly Quest for the Corinthian Church.