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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... maintaining the integrity of society . These social elements are based on a ' consensus of values ' among the population , and any change that does not function to maintain the system is considered ' deviant ' . Secondly , the conflict ...
... maintained the people's religious identity by proclaiming that the catastrophe had occurred , not because the Babylonian ... maintain a unified empire while allowing these groups a degree of cul- tural autonomy would have forced those ...
... maintain the Yahwistic identity of the people ( easing their psychological tension ) , and in the process they produced a world - view that maintained their place of power when the nation was to be restored . The priests would have ...