Tony Keddie
Tony Keddie
Tony Keddie is Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Fellow of the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications include Revelations of Ideology: Apocalyptic Class Politics in Early Roman Palestine (Brill, 2018), Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins (Cambridge, 2019), and The Struggle over Class: Socioeconomic Analysis of Ancient Christian Texts, co-edited with Michael Flexsenhar and Steven Friesen (SBL Press, 2021).
Money
The earliest clear evidence for the use of coins in exchange for goods and services dates to the sixth century BCE