{"product_id":"the-spirit-as-gift-in-acts-the-spirit-s-empowerment-of-the-early-jesus-community-9789004504424","title":"The Spirit as Gift in Acts: The Spirit’s Empowerment of the Early Jesus Community","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does Luke mean when he describes the Spirit as gift (Acts 2:38)? This study explores the social implications of gift-giving in the Greco-Roman world, arguing that gifts initiate and sustain relationships. Therefore, the description of the Spirit as gift is inherently social, which is shown in the Spirit’s empowerment of the teaching, unity, meals, sharing of possessions and worship of the early Jesus community. The Spirit as gift then leads us to see that the early Jesus community is “the community of the Holy Spirit.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   1\tThe Spirit as Gift in the Previous Research    1.1\tGonzalo Haya-Prats    1.2\tWilliam H. Shepherd    1.3\tMax Turner    1.4\tCraig Keener    1.5\tSummary   2\tA Fresh Approach to the Spirit as Gift    2.1\tThe Spirit and the Greco-Roman World    2.2\tThe Spirit and Sociological Models   3\tReading Acts    1 Methodology   1\tSociological Approaches to the New Testament    1.1\tAn Outline of the Social-Scientific Approach    1.2\tComparison with Socio-Historical Criticism    1.3\tCritiques of Sociological Approaches    1.4\tImplications for this Study   2\tSociological Approaches to Gift-Giving in the New Testament    2.1\tThe Context Group and the Taxonomy of Reciprocity    2.2\tJohn M. G. Barclay’s Reconfigured Gift Theory   3\tConclusion    2 Sociological Approaches to Gift-Giving   1\tMarcel Mauss and Gift-Giving   2\tThe Exchangist-Structuralist Gift   3\tThe Economistic Gift   4\tThe Impossible Gift   5\tThe Sociability of Gift-Giving   6\tConclusion    3 Gifts in the Greco-Roman World   1\tGifts and Sociability in the Greek Literature    1.1\tΔωρεά in the General-Soldier Relationship    1.2\tPlutarch and Gift-Giving    1.3\tJosephus and Gift-Giving    1.4\tAppian and Gift-Giving    1.5\tSummary   2\tGifts and Sociability in Latin Literature    2.1\tLivy, Valerius Maximus and Gift-Giving    2.2\tCicero and Gift-Giving    2.3\tSeneca and Gift-Giving    2.4\tSummary   3\tConclusion    4 The Summary Statements   1\tThe Translation and Difficult Phrases    1.1\tThe Translation of Acts 2:42–47, 4:32–35, 5:12–16    1.2\tIssues with Translation   2\tApproaching the Summary Statements   3\tThe Spirit and the Summary Statements   4\tConclusion    5 Witnessing, Teaching, Wonders and Joy   1\tThe Testimony of the Apostles   2\tThe Teaching of the Apostles    2.1\tTeaching and Social Space    2.2\tTeaching in Complementary Couplets    2.3\tTeaching and the Reinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible    2.4\tSummary   3\tSigns and Wonders   4\tThe Great Joy   5\tConclusion    6 The Gift of the Spirit and Prayer, Praise and Gratitude   1\tPrayer    1.1\tPrayer in the Summary Statements    1.2\tPrayer and Gratitude    1.3\tPrayer, Gift-Giving and the Spirit    1.4\tSummary   2\tPraising God    2.1\tPraise and Gratitude    2.2\tPraise and the Spirit in Acts    2.3\tSummary   3\tConclusion    7 Gift-Giving and the Lukan Jesus   1\tThe Sermon on the Plain    1.1\tThe Golden Rule    1.2\tCredit and Reward    1.3\tDivine Repayment    1.4\tSummary   2\tGift-Giving and the Sharing of Meals   3\tConclusion    8 The Communal Sharing and Sharing of Meals   1\tThe Descriptions of the Communal Sharing    1.1\tShared Property or Shared Access    1.2\tCommunal Sharing as Distribution    1.3\tWealth in Acts 3–5    1.4\tSummary   2\tThe Various Allusions in the Communal Sharing    2.1\tThe Hebrew Bible    2.2\tThe Friendship Tradition and Utopian Ideals    2.3\tAncient Associations    2.4\tKinship Sharing    2.5\tSummary   3\tShared Meals   4\tConclusion    9 The Gift of the Spirit and Communal Sharing   1\tThe Gift of the Spirit and the Communal Sharing   2\tThe Great Grace upon the Community   3\tThe Gift of the Spirit and the Promise of Reward   4\tImitation in the Communal Sharing   5\tThe Gift of the Spirit and the Sharing of Meals   6\tConclusion    10 The Unity of the Community   1\tThe Gift of the Spirit as Transcending Status    1.1\tThe Joel Quotation in Relation to Gender, Class and Age    1.2\tThe Gift of the Spirit and Regional Identities    1.3\tThe Gift of the Spirit and Ethnic Identities    1.4\tSummary   2\tThe Unity of the Early Jesus Community   3\tSharing all Things    3.1\tκοινὰ τὰ φίλων in the Primary Sources    3.2\tThe Gift of the Spirit and      3.3\tSummary   4\tConclusion    Conclusion   1\tAreas of Further Research   2\tImplications for Pentecostal Pneumatology    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210836074839,"sku":"9789004504424","price":51.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-spirit-as-gift-in-acts-the-spirit-s-empowerment-of-the-early-jesus-community-9789004504424","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}