The formerly wealthy poor: from empathy to ambivalence in rabbinic literature of late antiquity

Students of poverty in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim social, literary, and legal contexts in late antiquity and the Middle Ages have noted the phenomenon of wealthy people who fall into poverty and the provision of charitable assistance to them. This essay's principal purpose is to point out an...

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Subtitles:Research Article
Main Author: Gray, Alyssa M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2009]
In: AJS review
Year: 2009, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-133
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Poverty / Late Antiquity / Rabbinic literature / Empathy / Ambivalence
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Jewish Culture
B Social classes
B Poverty
B Redaction
B Horses
B Rabbis
B Fraud
B Late Antiquity
B Talmud
B Slaves
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