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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... JUBILEE The legislation associated with the year of jubilee presents the most radical program for continuous social reform to be found in the Old Testament.1 This is particularly the case with regard to land reform . Here the very basic ...
... jubilee land laws show that the new community could not be located just ... jubilee land laws . One possibility is that it was intended to ensure an equal place ... legislation than that of Jeremiah's purchase of his cousin's land because ...
... Law ? Ginzberg asserts that the explanation of fixing prices to the proximity of the jubilee shows that the author did not understand the natural economic responses to the legislation.2 Two assumptions underlie this comment . First ...