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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... material world ; therefore , the fulfillment was not to be found in the exile . A conquest narrative is lacking in P because the conquest tradition has been incorporated into the existing material in a subdued fashion since the conquest ...
... material may be taken as utopian , but that does not imply a postexilic date ; many of the prophecies of Deutero - Isaiah look toward a restoration of the people that is unrealistic in actual history . 2 Regarding the entire last ...
... material to Ezekiel as an editor , 2 but who was this editor and how did he make his decisions ? Although some of the material in chs . 40-48 is at odds with that of chs . 1-39 , the prophet might have authored some of the fundamental ...