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. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-3 من 11
... redemption as an alternative to waiting until the year of the jubilee , an alternative which accomplishes the same end . Verses 25-28 appear to list three ways in which an individual who has lost his land through poverty might regain ...
... redemption . ( 33 ) If one of the Levites does not exercise his right of redemption , the house in the city of his allotted possession will go out in the jubilee because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their allotted ...
... redemption price from the cost of his purchase . ( 52 ) If a few years remain until the year of the jubilee , he will reckon with him ; in accordance with his years , he will repay his redemption price . ( 53 ) HE WILL BE WITH HIM LIKE ...