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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... institution ( like the jubilee ) , this refers to the actual structure and rules of the institution as we find it in Leviticus 25 and the real effects of its existence . The second level of meaning is the ' expressive meaning ' . This ...
... institution — later to become the synagogue - in which the people congregated for a simple type of worship which included prayer , hymns and a lecture.3 The exiles literally created a Yahwistic community in Babylonia which had its own ...
... institution . ' In addition , as experts in a narrow sector of knowledge , they created highly theoretical legitimations of their institution - legitimations which finally transcended pragmatic concerns so that the institution ...