Exposing the Economic Middle: A Revised Economy Scale for the Study of Early Urban Christianity

In 2004 Steve Friesen proposed a `poverty scale' for Graeco-Roman urbanism as a backdrop against which to assess features of the earliest urban Christian communities. This article offers an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Friesen's scale, not least in relation to binary taxon...

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Main Author: Longenecker, Bruce W. 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2009
In: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2009, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 243-278
Further subjects:B Poverty
B Early Christianity
B middling groups
B Frisians
B economic scale
B Urbanism
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