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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... Early Israel Without attempting an exhaustive study of premonarchic Israel , it is possible to determine that particular beliefs about land tenure were handed down to subsequent generations , who produced the jubilee . Discovering roots ...
... early roots of the jubilee . North believes that the Sitz im Leben is better understood as the period of occupation , when hopes for growth were so high that restrictions were required , rather than the period of restoration . ' This ...
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