Exposing the Economic Middle
A Revised Economy Scale for the Study of Early Urban Christianity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9315877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce W Longenecker (0000-0001-9698-6617, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9JU, Scotland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-278 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of the New Testament (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-064X • E-ISSN: 1745-5294 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0142064x08101524 |
| OpenAlex | W2100361128 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 47 |
In 2004 Steve Friesen proposed a `poverty scale' for Graeco-Roman urbanism as a backdrop against which to assess features of the earliest urban Christian communities. This article offers an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Friesen's scale, not least in relation to binary taxonomies of Graeco-Roman economic stratification, rhetorical conventions of the ancient world, and the `middling groups' of Graeco-Roman urbanism. It proposes adjustments to the scale (renamed as the `economic scale') and gives consideration to the significance of those adjustments for the reconstruction of early Christianity relative to ancient poverty
Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Christianity · Geography · Literature · Political science · Poverty · Rhetorical question · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Urbanism · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Architecture · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |