Is It Good to Be Rich?

Is It Good to Be Rich?

Answers from the Bible and Antiquity

Edited by Nadine Ueberschaer, Peter Altmann and Frank Ueberschaer

2025. 592 pages.

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (WUNT I) 532

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This volume sheds light on the intellectual engagement with wealth in the various literary genres of the Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophical and Greek poetic literature, Jewish writings from the Hellenistic-Roman period, Qumran, the writings of the New Testament and the Early Church.

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Nadine Ueberschaer 2018 doctorate at the University of Zurich in New Testament; 2020-23 Junior Professor of New Testament at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; Junior Professor at the University of Greifswald.

Peter Altmann Born 1974; 2004 ThM and 2010 PhD in Old Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary; 2016 Habilitation, University of Zurich; 2008-23 Senior Researcher & Teaching Fellow, University of Zurich; currently David Allan Hubbard Associate Professor of Old Testament Fuller Theological Seminary.

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Frank Ueberschaer Born 1972; 2008 Dr. theol. at the Protestant School of Theology in Wuppertal; 2006-10 minister; 2010-16 Senior Post-Doc at the University of Zurich; 2014 Habilitation; Professor for the Exegesis and Theology of the Hebrew Bible at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.

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