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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... observed universally . In addition , David Hopkins has provided a reasonable explanation of how a universal fallow could have been observed . " A more convincing economic argument for the early roots of the jubilee is one based on its ...
... OBSERVED ? The jubilee is partly so intriguing because of what happened to it after reaching its final redaction in Leviticus 25 , that is , how later generations responded to it . One biblical text that was written after Leviticus 25 ...
... observed previously . ( We might assume that if the sabbaths were not being observed , neither were the jubilee years . ) The existence of the jubilee law , which had not been observed , explained the present condition of the world in a ...