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Serving at the 'Banking-Tables'
New Light on Acts 2-8 and the Link Between Spiritual and Economic Transformation
Series: - Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 208
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Traditional exegesis divides scripture into two distinct economic models: the OT (Hebrew) model of blessing with a âsurplus of prosperityâ, and the NT (Christian) model of economic collectivism with âall things in commonâ. Using an economic perspective as an exegetical tool, the author demonstrates that this differentiation is an artificial construct. In particular, he argues that various NT Greek words and phrases in Acts, which have been rendered to describe acts of charity, should be reinterpreted to depict overtly commercial activities, including the possibility of a banking operation at the heart of the primitive church that posed a serious political and economic threat to the Jewish elite in first-century Jerusalem.
Douglas Harrison-Mills, Ph.D. (2012), University of Birmingham (UK), is an investment banker and independent scholar. He has been publishing his innovative biblical research for many years using the internet platform of Ourfathers.biz, which included a regular âe-pistleâ sent to Christian business and political professionals around the world.
The book would be of interest to post-graduate students and lecturers in Biblical studies, also Christian professionals operating in the fields of Behavioural and Development economics, plus experienced Christian business people.