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: 592 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(April 2025)

ISBN: 9783161608490

6.85 x 9.72 inches

Price: $254.00

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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.

Peter Altmann (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1974; 2004 ThM and 2010 PhD in Old Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary; 2016 Habilitation, University of Zurich; 2008-23 Senior Researcher & Teaching Fellow, University of Zurich; currently David Allan Hubbard Associate Professor of Old Testament Fuller Theological Seminary.
Nadine Ueberschaer (Herausgegeben von)
2018 doctorate at the University of Zurich in New Testament; 2020-23 Junior Professor of New Testament at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; Junior Professor at the University of Greifswald.
Frank Ueberschaer (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1972; 2008 Dr. theol. at the Protestant School of Theology in Wuppertal; 2014 Habilitation; Professor of the Exegesis and Theology of the Hebrew Bible at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.

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