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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... utopian nature of the vision . There are several aspects of Ezekiel's vision of the restored land that display a utopian unreality . First , by the time of the exile , the division of the people by tribes had been lost . " Genealogical ...
... utopian ideal which could not be carried out in the world as it actually exists . In all these ways , the jubilee resembles Ezekiel in that it envisions a new society which conforms to the priestly world - view in ways that the actual ...
... utopian society , rather it seeks to insinuate itself in the very existence of the real world . Yet the jubilee seems also to express the notion that the real world must be understood by a reality that may not be immediately apparent to ...