Land Tenure and the Biblical Jubilee: Uncovering Hebrew Ethics through the Sociology of KnowledgeBloomsbury Publishing, 01/02/1993 - 135 من الصفحات The biblical jubilee represents one of the most radical programmes for land reform from the ancient Near East, yet it was never practised in ancient Israel. What then is the meaning of this sacred law that was never enforced? This cogently argued book attempts to answer that question by using the tools of sociological analysis. Fager examines three levels of meaning within the jubilee legislation, which was produced by the priestly intellectuals during the period of exile. The actual words of the text carry one meaning and the priests intended a slightly different meaning, but underlying both was a moral world view that guided them. The laws of the biblical jubilee thus enable us to examine the deepest level of the ancient Israelites' understanding of land and justice. |
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الصفحة 15
... produce.1 A text is not a series of propositions organized according to a deep structure by which anyone knowing the vocabulary and the rules of grammar and syntax will understand the text's meaning . Rather , a text is a ' scenario ...
... produce.1 A text is not a series of propositions organized according to a deep structure by which anyone knowing the vocabulary and the rules of grammar and syntax will understand the text's meaning . Rather , a text is a ' scenario ...
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... produced their own order ( society ) which organizes thought and keeps existence from dissolving into chaos.3 It 1. K. Mannheim , Ideology and Utopia : An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge ( trans . L. Wirth and E. Shils ; New ...
... produced their own order ( society ) which organizes thought and keeps existence from dissolving into chaos.3 It 1. K. Mannheim , Ideology and Utopia : An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge ( trans . L. Wirth and E. Shils ; New ...
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... produce society , ( 2 ) society is considered to be an objective reality and ( 3 ) society molds humans.2 The task of world building is actually a task of ordering or classifying the objects and events observed in the flux of experience ...
... produce society , ( 2 ) society is considered to be an objective reality and ( 3 ) society molds humans.2 The task of world building is actually a task of ordering or classifying the objects and events observed in the flux of experience ...
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... produce . For example , in Assyria , land could be leased for a specified amount of time , allowing the owner to retain possession of the land while the lessee received the usufruct . 1 This distinction between ownership and access ...
... produce . For example , in Assyria , land could be leased for a specified amount of time , allowing the owner to retain possession of the land while the lessee received the usufruct . 1 This distinction between ownership and access ...
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... produced the jubilee . Discovering roots for the jubilee in Israel's early period not only indicates the tenacity with which such views of land tenure were held , but it also supports the thesis that the jubilee deliberately used ...
... produced the jubilee . Discovering roots for the jubilee in Israel's early period not only indicates the tenacity with which such views of land tenure were held , but it also supports the thesis that the jubilee deliberately used ...
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A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE JUBILEE IN THE LATE EXILIC PERIOD | 37 |
THE MORAL WORLDVIEW OF THE JUBILEE | 83 |
CONCLUSION | 119 |
The Literary Strata of Leviticus 25 | 123 |
Selected Bibliography | 126 |
Index of References | 132 |
Index of Authors | 134 |
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