Begging for Their Daily Bread: Beggar-Centric Interpretations of Matthew 6

Zhenya Gurina-Rodríguez

doi:10.5771/9781978710634

Summary

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.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1062-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1063-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 144
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Dedication No access
1. Beggars in the Roman Empire No access
2. Poverty in New Testament Studies No access
3. Reading The Sermon on the Mountain with/for the Poor No access
4. A Beggars-Centric Hermeneutic No access
5. Notes No access
1. Homer, The Odyssey No access
2. Beyond The Odyssey: Beggars in Greco-Roman Society No access
3. Beggars in Second Temple Literature No access
4. Beggars in New Testament No access
5. Socioeconomic Profile of Beggars in Antiquity No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. Gathering Places of Early Christian Communities No access
2. Georgios No access
3. Elpida No access
4. Kopreias No access
5. Non-Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:1–4 No access
6. Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:1–4 No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Non-Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:5–6 No access
2. Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:5–6 No access
3. Non-Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:7–14 No access
4. Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:7–14 No access
5. Non-Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:16–18 No access
6. Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:16–18 No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Non-Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:19–21 No access
2. Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:19–21 No access
3. Non-Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:22–23 No access
4. Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:22–23 No access
5. Non-Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:24 No access
6. Non-Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:25–34 No access
7. Beggarly Interpretations of Matthew 6:25–34 No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
Chapter 6: Conclusion No access Pages 131 - 134
1. Primary Sources: Latin and Greek Texts No access
2. Secondary Sources No access
Index No access Pages 141 - 142
About the Author No access Pages 143 - 144