Land Tenure and the Biblical Jubilee: Uncovering Hebrew Ethics Through the Sociology of KnowledgeBloomsbury Academic, 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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... “ The Social Sciences and Biblical Interpretation ' , Int 36 , p . 240 . 3. Flanagan , David's Social Drama , pp . 53-72 . how texts communicate their meanings . Bruce Malina helpfully summarized 14 Land Tenure and the Biblical Jubilee.
... jubilee had not been effective and that the political leadership made no use of it in appropriate situations . Thus , in the biblical literature , there is no evidence of the jubilee's emergence as a viable institution . In the ...
... jubilee was literally observed . The two religious traditions that considered the Hebrew Bible a sacred text took rather different views of the jubilee . Several of the church ... JUBILEE IN THE 36 Land Tenure and the Biblical Jubilee.