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Author Brown, Peter, 1935- author.

Title Treasure in heaven : the holy poor in early Christianity / Peter Brown.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 162 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Richard lectures for 2012
Page-Barbour and Richard lectures series
Richard lectures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-150) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1."Treasure in Heaven" and "The Poor among the Saints": Jesus and Paul -- Leadership and the Escape from Labor -- 2."Do It through the Bishop": Tricksters, Bishops, and Teachers, AD 200 -- 300 -- 3."The Treasuries That Are in the Heights": The Elect, the Catechumens, and the Cosmos in Manichaeism -- 4."In the Likeness of the Angels": Syria and the Debate on Labor -- 5."The Work of the Hands ... an Ornament to the Men of Egypt": Monks and Work in Fourth-Century Egypt -- 6."You Are a Human Being ... You Must Work ... in Order to Eat": The Meanings of Work in Monastic Egypt.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Church work with the poor.
Church work with the poor.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Middle East -- Church history.
Middle East.
Church history.
Middle East Region.
Chronological Term 30-600
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
Other Form: Print version: Brown, Peter, 1935- Treasure in heaven. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016 9780813938288 (DLC) 2015017651 (OCoLC)911199807
ISBN 9780813938295 (electronic book)
0813938295 (electronic book)
9780813938288
0813938287