Making Connections: The Material Expression of Friendship in the New Testament

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 58 (2):158-171 (2004)
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From Luke to James, the writers of the New Testament transformed the Greco-Roman ideal of friendship into a communal ethos. This koinonia was characterized above all by the sharing of material possessions

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10.1177/002096430405800205

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