A Spiritual Economy: Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus

Contents

Acknowledgments

ONE
Introduction

TWO
Symbolic Goods as Media of Exchange in Paul’s Gift Economy

THREE
The Benefactor’s Account Book: The Rhetoric of Gift Reciprocation According to Seneca and Paul

FOUR
Gift or Commodity? On the Classification of Paul’s Unremunerated Labor

FIVE
Classification and Social Relations: The Dark Side of the Gift

SIX
The Gift of Status

SEVEN
Spiritual Gifts and Status Inversion

EIGHT
Summary and Conclusions

Appendix: Letters and Events Significantly Shaping Paul’s Relations with the Corinthian Assembly: A Relative Chronology

List of Abbreviations

Index of Subjects

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Biblical and Early Jewish Sources

Index of Greek and Roman Sources