Download or read book Theories of Poverty in the World of the New Testament written by David J. Armitage and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was poverty interpreted in the New Testament? David J. Armitage explores key ways in which poverty was understood in the Greco-Roman and Jewish milieux of the New Testament, and considers how approaches to poverty found in the texts of the New Testament itself relate to these wider contexts. - back of the book.