160 - Remembering the Poor: The History of Paul's Collection for Jerusalem

Remembering the Poor: The History of Paul's Collection for Jerusalem
By Dieter Georgi
Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1992. 232 pp. $17.95.

Originally submitted as a faculty qualification study to the University of Heidelberg in 1962, this monograph was published in German in 1965. Although Georgi has made a number of minor revisions for the English version (he left out a section on 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 because he subsequently became convinced the passage was not written by Paul), the work remains essentially the same. The analysis actually covers 112 pages, the remainder containing endnotes, two appendices, a bibliography and an "Afterword" on justification and money. The long overdue appearance of this study in English is to be hailed. The collection for the church in Jerusalem, which Paul accumulated from among the Gentile Christian communities with which he worked, was an undertaking dear to his heart and his theology. Although Paul devoted space to the project both in Romans and the Corinthian correspondence (two chapters in 2 Corinthians!), the topic has received only cursory scholarly attention. Georgi's study is one of only a very few published monographs to give it thorough analysis.

Keith F. Nickle
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh, PA.