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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... Leviticus 25 , that is , how later generations responded to it . One biblical text that was written after Leviticus 25 , and that one might expect to allude to the jubilee , is Neh . 5.1-13 . In this text , Nehemiah is confronted by a ...
... Leviticus 25 not only clarified its commands and brought urgency to them , it also expressed the theological warrants for the law . Although much of the material in the Holiness Code could be considered civil rather than sacral , the ...
... Leviticus 25 to be a part of the Holiness Code or the priestly work , there is a clear correspondence between it and Ezekiel . Both Ezekiel and the Holiness Code place a great deal of stress on holiness , which is the main point of ...