‘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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Autor principal: Giambrone, Anthony 1977- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Verificar disponibilidad: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 2014
En: New Testament studies
Año: 2014, Volumen: 60, Número: 4, Páginas: 448-465
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Didache 1,5 / Limosnas / Bibel. Timotheusbrief 1. 6,14
Otras palabras clave:B 1 Timothy
B commandment
B Almsgiving
B Didache
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:No electrónico
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1469-8145
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: New Testament studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0028688514000125