LEADER 03579nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910791571803321 005 20230721012516.0 010 $a1-282-41595-6 010 $a9786612415951 010 $a0-300-15487-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300154870 035 $a(CKB)2560000000053790 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050043 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000442428 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11302417 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442428 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10447436 035 $a(PQKB)11065061 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420594 035 $a(DE-B1597)485596 035 $a(OCoLC)707080649 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300154870 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420594 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348491 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL241595 035 $a(OCoLC)923594850 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000053790 100 $a20090324d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSin$b[electronic resource] $ea history /$fGary A. Anderson 210 $aNew Haven, CT $cYale University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-14989-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tABBREVIATIONS -- $tCHAPTER 1. What Is a Sin? -- $tCHAPTER 2. A Burden to Be Borne -- $tCHAPTER 3. A Debt to Be Repaid -- $tCHAPTER 4. Redemption and the Satisfaction of Debts -- $tCHAPTER 5. Ancient Creditors, Bound Laborers, and the Sanctity of the Land -- $tCHAPTER 6. Lengthening the Term of Debt -- $tCHAPTER 7. Loans and the Rabbinic Sages -- $tCHAPTER 8. Early Christian Thinking on the Atonement -- $tCHAPTER 9. Redeem Your Sins with Alms -- $tCHAPTER 10. Salvation by Works? -- $tCHAPTER 11. A Treasury in Heaven -- $tCHAPTER 12. Why God Became Man -- $tNOTES -- $tGENERAL INDEX -- $tINDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES 330 $aWhat is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning nearly two thousand years, the book brilliantly demonstrates how sin, once conceived of as a physical burden, becomes, over time, eclipsed by economic metaphors. Transformed from a weight that an individual carried, sin becomes a debt that must be repaid in order to be redeemed in God's eyes.Anderson shows how this ancient Jewish revolution in thought shaped the way the Christian church understood the death and resurrection of Jesus and eventually led to the development of various penitential disciplines, deeds of charity, and even papal indulgences. In so doing it reveals how these changing notions of sin provided a spur for the Protestant Reformation.Broad in scope while still exceptionally attentive to detail, this ambitious and profound book unveils one of the most seismic shifts that occurred in religious belief and practice, deepening our understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human experience. 606 $aSin 606 $aTheological anthropology 615 0$aSin. 615 0$aTheological anthropology. 676 $a241/.309 686 $a11.01$2bcl 700 $aAnderson$b Gary A.$f1955-$0768185 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791571803321 996 $aSin$93865191 997 $aUNINA