"Almsgiving Delivers from Death”: Charity to the Poor Considered Theologically

Presenter: Gary Anderson, professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, University of Notre Dame
March 25, 2010
"Almsgiving Delivers from Death”: Charity to the Poor Considered Theologically
In Second Temple Judaism the practice of charity towards the poor assumed a structural significance parallel to that of offering a sacrifice in the Temple. This lecture traces the origins of this revolutionary idea in the Bible and its groundbreaking ramifications for the development of Jewish and Christian piety and practice.
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Excellent discourse on alms giving and charity. I believe that if we congregants would give our alms to the poor the gov't would not be
obliged to do this work of the congregations.