Utilizing theories of gift exchange from Seneca to Marcel Mauss and beyond, Thomas Blanton explains the operation of the gift economy at work in the letters of Paul of Tarsus. The work shows how Paul adapted discourses and practices of gift exchange to motivate the transmission …
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: Introduction -- TWO: Symbolic Goods as Media of Exchange in Paul's Gift Economy -- THREE: The Benefactor's Account Book: The Rhetoric of Gift Reciprocation According to Seneca and Paul -- FOUR: Gift…
Utilizing theories of gift exchange from Seneca to Marcel Mauss and beyond, Thomas Blanton explains the operation of the gift economy at work in the letters of Paul of Tarsus. The work shows how Paul adapted discourses and practices of gift exchange to motivate the transmission …
« Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchange, but other forces also caused goods to change hands. Such nonmarket transfers ranged from small private gifts to the wholesale confiscation of cities, lands, and their peoples. The papers presented…