God, Benefactor and Patron: The Major Cultural Model for Interpreting the Deity in Greco-Roman Antiquity

This study contributes to a renewed interest in the Christian Deity by employing the cultural model of benefactor–client relations. What is fresh here is an enlarged model of this pattern of social relations and fresh, apt and plentiful illustrations of it in antiquity. The patron–client model is ex...

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Main Author: Neyrey, Jerome H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2005
In: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2005, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 465-492
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