RT Article
T1 ‘According to the Commandment’ (Did. 1.5): Lexical Reflections on Almsgiving as ‘The Commandment’
JF New Testament studies
VO 60
IS 4
SP 448
OP 465
A1 Giambrone, Anthony 1977-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785740407
AB 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 precept, while the Didache attests to a more stabilised and syntactically developed, but still transitional, expression. The use of ἐντολή in 1 Tim 6.14 does not belong to the mature usage, and Test. Ash. 2.8 is a problematic reference point (pace Nathan Eubank). The Didache is more helpful in contextualising the NT evidence.
K1 1 Timothy
K1 Didache
K1 commandment
K1 Almsgiving
DO 10.1017/S0028688514000125