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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... particular notion of the world . The fourth stage , an explicit explica- tion of the symbolic universe , is not readily apparent within the text since the priests did not function as systematic theologians . Indeed , very few texts ...
... particular social needs . Therefore , the land tenure and land reform institutions of the other ancient Near Eastern societies may have been known by Israel and adapted insofar as they proved congruent with and useful to Israel's ...
... particular plot of land and , on the surface , the right to buy and sell land . However , the jubilee states quite clearly that such ' sales ' cannot be permanent ; thus an individual does not have an absolute right of disposal over the ...