Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Studies Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,1 (2020) 1-21
Schlagwort(e):
Charity Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Charity Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Charity in rabbinical literature
;
Sin in rabbinical literature
Kurzfassung:
This article explores several parallel teachings in rabbinic Judaism and late antique Christianity regarding redemptive almsgiving. First, the author calls attention to remarks made by Cyprian of Carthage and John Chrysostom that maintain almsgiving delivers from physical death, similar to the statements in the Babylonian Talmud known as the »tzedakah saves from death« sayings. In contrast to some earlier Christian sources, Cyprian and John viewed almsgiving as redemptive regardless of whether the recipient of alms prayed for his/her donors, and did not regard the poor as virtuous simply because of their poverty. Finally, the author maintains that Cyprian and John differed from their rabbinic contemporaries in their teaching that almsgiving was a remedy for sin.
DOI:
10.1628/jsq-2020-0002
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