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NEW STUDIES IN BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

Series Editor: D. A. Carson

Neither poverty
nor riches
A BIBLICAL
THEOLOGY OF
MATERIAL
POSSESSIONS

Craig L. Blomberg

InterVarsity Press

Apollos

Downers Grove, Illinois

L e i c e s t e r, E n g l a n d

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