id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt d217qn61x50 Andrew John Allen Geist 'He Will Repay Him With Good': The Relationship Between Wealth and Piety in Mesopotamia and Ancient Israel 1904 .txt text/plain 347 13 42 The study reveals a shared theological grammar of wealth and piety which surfaces in three forms: the dangerous or illusory quality of wealth, economic generosity as a form of piety, and economic metaphors for piety. In identifying these features of the relationship between wealth and piety the study explores the conceptual ancestry of Second Temple Jewish and early Christian theologies of wealth and almsgiving. cache/d217qn61x50.txt txt/d217qn61x50.txt