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To be guilty of emotional sin is to allow psychosomatic feelings (or rising emotion) free reign to trump godly (rational) guidance of behavioral pursuits. the first century CE warn that all emotions carry temptation(s) to sin or error. The Pauline collection had similar characteristics and can be seen as part of this widespread economic practice. Transfers of money were organized according to a consistent pattern modeled on local charitable practices.
This practice involved churches from most of the Mediterranean Basin and was known even outside of Christian circles.
This study also surveys intergroup support between Christian groups in the first three centuries CE. The collection was an action modeled on divine generosity and an exchange within a reciprocal relationship between Christian groups. Paul was interested in reassuring the Corinthians about the financial outcome of the collection and dispelling doubts that he might take advantage of them. Through a comparison with the Greco-Roman world and a close reading of the texts, this study challenges the recent approach and proposes that other factors shaped Paul’s stance. Recent assessments of the Pauline collection have focused on patronage to explain the social relations between Jerusalem and the Pauline groups and the strategies adopted by Paul. The Pauline collection for the poor in Jerusalem is the most famous example of financial support for geographically distant groups in early Christianity. In light of these considerations the contributions in this volume discuss the cogency of the “parting of the ways”-model with a look at prominent early Christian writers and places and suggest more appropriate metaphors to describe the relationships of Jews and Christians in the early period. are more blurred than the image of “parting ways” allows. It is more likely that distinctions between Jews, Christians, Jewish Christians, Christian Jews etc. Another critique is that this image looks from a later perspective at historical developments which can hardly be grasped with such a metaphor. One objection raised against this metaphor is that it accentuates differences at the expense of commonalities. The aim is to discuss the relationships of “Jews” and “Christians” in the first two centuries CE against the background of recent debates which have called into question the image of “parting ways” for a description of the relationships of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. The present volume is based on a conference held in October 2019 at the Faculty of Theology of Humboldt University Berlin as part of a common project of the Australian Catholic University, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Humboldt University Berlin.