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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Uncovering Hebrew Ethics Through the Sociology of Knowledge Jeffrey A. Fager. Chapter 1 THE USE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE IN EXAMINING THE JUBILEE The legislation associated with the year of jubilee presents the most radical program ...
... knowledge of their models of an ideal social world . I will use the sociology of knowledge to uncover and examine these models . The sociology of knowledge provides the tool of inquiry which will enable us to formulate hypotheses ...
... sociology of knowledge has contributed to these conclusions concerning the jubilee in three ways . First , the sociology of knowledge discloses the reasons why certain traditions concerning land tenure were adopted by later generations ...