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In Begging for Their Daily Bread, Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez formulates a beggars-centric hermeneutic and interprets Matthew 6 through this lense, arguing that this text could be both engaging and alienating to beggars in the first-century Jesus movement. Gurina-Rodriguez establishes that beggars come from different backgrounds and diverse perspectives on their realities of life while sharing particular life experiences marked by destitution, homelessness, lack of any safety net, and controversial reactions from the public to their means of survival. Gurina-Rodriguez constructs three beggar characters, explores the differences and similarities in their possible interpretations of a portion of the Sermon on the Mount, and brings to our attention some of the blind spots that many traditional readings of the text written by non-poor Western scholars have concerning life in poverty.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Positioning a Beggars-Centric Hermeneutic in New Testament Studies

Chapter 2: Socio-Economic Profile of Beggars in Antiquity

Chapter 3: On Receiving Alms (Matthew 6:1-4)

Chapter 4: On Praying and Fasting (Matthew 6:5-18)

Chapter 5: On Treasures, Eyes, Masters, and Worries (Matthew 6:19-34)

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Begging for Their Daily Bread: Beggar-Centric

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      Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
      Published 29 September 2022
      ISBN-13 9781978710627
      978-1978710627
      ISBN-10 1978710623

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In Begging for Their Daily Bread, Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez formulates a beggars-centric hermeneutic and interprets Matthew 6 through this lense, arguing that this text could be both engaging and alienating to beggars in the first-century Jesus movement. Gurina-Rodriguez establishes that beggars come from different backgrounds and diverse perspectives on their realities of life while sharing particular life experiences marked by destitution, homelessness, lack of any safety net, and controversial reactions from the public to their means of survival. Gurina-Rodriguez constructs three beggar characters, explores the differences and similarities in their possible interpretations of a portion of the Sermon on the Mount, and brings to our attention some of the blind spots that many traditional readings of the text written by non-poor Western scholars have concerning life in poverty.



      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Positioning a Beggars-Centric Hermeneutic in New Testament Studies

      Chapter 2: Socio-Economic Profile of Beggars in Antiquity

      Chapter 3: On Receiving Alms (Matthew 6:1-4)

      Chapter 4: On Praying and Fasting (Matthew 6:5-18)

      Chapter 5: On Treasures, Eyes, Masters, and Worries (Matthew 6:19-34)

      Chapter 6: Conclusion

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