1. Poverty in Pauline Studies: Beyond the So-called New Consensus
2. Friesen, “Poverty in Pauline Studies,” 334. Wayne Meeks's work on early urban Christians contextualizes religion in a study of society that emphasizes adherents' social formation and belief. Meeks cites Max Weber and Moses Finley for the development of the category “social status,” which is crucial to his analysis. SeeWayne Meeks,The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul(New Haven:Yale University Press,1983),53.
3. Luise Schotroff,Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity, trans.Barbara RumscheidtandMartin Rumscheidt(Louisville, KY:Westminster John Knox,1995),150.