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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; Reprint edition (November 25, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0300198833
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300198836
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsSeveral Thoughts for Further Study
By Paul Q. Kucera on April 23, 2014
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I was hoping this book would spend a good deal of time discussing the poor in the biblical tradition, as the subtitle suggests. The subtitle would probably be better stated as "Almsgiving in the Biblical Tradition." This book is, as the main title makes plain, an exploration of the subject of charity: the poor figure in it only to the extent that they are the nameless, voiceless "slot" through which one's charitable giving goes "clink" in the heavenly treasury.

So in one respect, Anderson's book did not live up to my hopes for it. However, Anderson is not proposing to study the poor as the poor: his aim is to explore how Second Temple Jewish authors, especially Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) and the author of Tobit, thought of almsgiving, and to consider also how almsgiving is treated in the gospels according to Matthew and Luke. If anything, the subtitle might have been, "Time with Tobit."

Anderson helpfully explains the way in which almsgiving became an equivalent for temple sacrifice in a time when the Temple in Jerusalem no longer stood. My sense of the sum of Professor Anderson's argument is that charity, specifically giving alms to the poor, is enacting one's faith, in several senses. Anderson discusses those several senses: faith in God, faith in God as the kind of God revealed in Scripture, faith in the goodness of creation, faith in God's promises, faith that God is not indifferent, faith that risking material wealth here on earth is an act that pleases God in heaven, faith that God will remember the faithful.

I am still wondering how one chapter leads logically into the next. This is not always made entirely clear.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsContinuously interesting, intellectually challenging, and spiritually convicting
By Christina Grace Dehan on October 19, 2014
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I found this book continuously continuously interesting, intellectually challenging (without being too dense), and spiritually convicting. While Anderson is clearly a gifted Biblical scholar, he steers clear of jargon and esoteric academic allusions and manages to write in such a way that is accessible to any educated reader who loves Scripture. I highly recommend this book, although readers should be warned that both during and after reading "Charity," they will most likely be compelled to re-examine their own attitudes toward charitable giving.
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5.0 out of 5 starsit brings up some of the same points but drives home the importance of helping the poor as a major part of religious life
By Phil Coppa on November 26, 2014
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Much easier reading than his "Sin, a History", it brings up some of the same points but drives home the importance of helping the poor as a major part of religious life.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn Important Contribution to our sensitivities
By John T. Conroy, Jr. on October 31, 2013
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A superb example of careful exegesis of biblical texts and a sensitivity to a part of our society that is systematically overlooked. It fulfilled the expectations that arose out of its prominent featuring in "America" magazine.
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3.0 out of 5 starsNeeded more Biblical references
By Sam F. Hochstatter on February 27, 2014
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I am a Protestant so I didn't follow the authors use of intertestament quotations or his Catholic theology, but I did appreciate his research on charity. Was hoping he would use scriptural references.
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