Is It Good to Be Rich?

Answers from the Bible and Antiquity

Edited by Nadine Ueberschaer Edited by Peter Altmann Edited by Frank Ueberschaer

Book cover: Is It Good to Be Rich?

Extent: 583 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Language: English

Hardback (Unspecified)

(April 2025)

ISBN: 9783161608490

6.85 x 9.69 inches

Price: $212.00

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In this volume, the contributors unpack the ambiguous approaches to wealth and riches in texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greco-Roman Jewish texts, Greek philosophical discourses and poetry, the New Testament, and the Early Church.


Biblical and extra-biblical sources provide a variety of insights into human approaches to the acquisition of and relation to riches in antiquity. For, while every person and society require certain provisions for survival, humans mostly desire to have more. In this volume, the contributors unpack the ambiguous approaches to wealth and riches in texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greco-Roman Jewish texts, Greek philosophical discourses and poetry, the New Testament, and the Early Church.

  • Edited by Nadine Ueberschaer
  • Edited by Peter Altmann
  • Edited by Frank Ueberschaer