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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... Divine ownership was related to the land's agricultural function and , thus , to its fecundity . Land rendered fertile through human efforts ( irrigation for example ) was human property , but land rendered fertile by divine activity was ...
... Divine Ownership of the Land The cornerstone of the jubilee is found in v . 23 , ' The land shall not be sold in perpetuity , for the land is mine ' . The belief in the divine own- ership of the land carries with it certain implications ...
... God exclusively . This leads to the other implications of divine ownership of the land . If the land is to be used exclusively for God's purposes , it may not be used to further the economic interests of any persons or class of persons ...