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 tradition and of a group of priests who adopted that tradition in the late exilic period , I will use the sociology of knowledge to illuminate the ways in which the priests ' social location affected their adoption of what they ...
... tradition exactly as they had received it , but they used the tradition to explain the present and the future . 1 Explainers of the Cosmos One of the ways the jubilee tradition was used to explain the presently existing world was to ...
... traditions that the apostacy and injustice that led to the exile would not be repeated.2 Like most mortals , the priests ' motives were a mixture of religious high - mindedness and self- interest ; however , the jubilee tradition they ...