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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... Gottwald , The Hebrew Bible : A Socio - Literary Introduction ( Philadelphia : Fortress Press , 1985 ) , p . 201 . 2. Gottwald , The Hebrew Bible , p . 421 . 3. J.M. Davison , ' The Oikoumene in Ferment : A Cross - Cultural Study of the ...
... Gottwald believes that , with most of the officials in exile , the premonarchic village tribalism ( which had been sup- pressed by the monarchy ) ' was able to re - emerge as the dominant force in organizing and preserving Palestinian ...
... Gottwald lists three factors that were to complicate the returnees ' task of rebuilding the nation , two of which could very well have been foreseen by the exiles . First , the Persians were dealing with a huge empire that comprised ...