God's People in God's Land: Family, Land, and Property in the Old TestamentWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1990 - 284 من الصفحات In recent sociological approaches to the Old Testament, Christians have been finding unexpected resources for their ethical reflection and action relative to the modern world's pressing social and economic dilemmas. This unique survey by Christopher Wright examines life in Old Testament Israel from an ethical perspective by considering how the economic facts of Israel's social structure were related to the people's religious beliefs. Observing the centrality of the family in social, economic and religious spheres of Israelite life, Wright analyzes Israel's theology of land, the rights and responsibilities of property owners, and the socioeconomic and legal status of dependent persons in ancient Israel - wives, children, and slaves - showing the mutual interaction between such laws, institutions, and customs and the nation's covenant relationship with God. While primarily exegetical, God's People in God's Land contains many useful insights for Christian social ethics: Wright suggests how the ethical application of his findings might proceed as Christians with different theological perspectives and cultural contexts seek to work out the relevance of the Old Testament for today. |
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الصفحة xii
... particular dimension of Israel's society — the economic struc- tures concerning land , property , and dependent persons within the family . Since this involves close study of the laws , institutions , and social customs of Israel , the ...
... particular dimension of Israel's society — the economic struc- tures concerning land , property , and dependent persons within the family . Since this involves close study of the laws , institutions , and social customs of Israel , the ...
الصفحة xiv
... particular area of property ethics . The process by which the thesis was brought to birth , however , began with the discovery of a scarcity of scholarly literature in either the general or the particular of the said fields of interest ...
... particular area of property ethics . The process by which the thesis was brought to birth , however , began with the discovery of a scarcity of scholarly literature in either the general or the particular of the said fields of interest ...
الصفحة xv
... particular field of ancient Israelite economic life . property relationships , and institutions there have been , broadly speaking , two kinds of scholarly approach . On the one hand , there is the sociological approach of those who ...
... particular field of ancient Israelite economic life . property relationships , and institutions there have been , broadly speaking , two kinds of scholarly approach . On the one hand , there is the sociological approach of those who ...
الصفحة xviii
... particular cultural context of prin- ciples of justice , humaneness , equality , responsibility , and so forth which are applicable , mutatis mutandis , to all people in sub- sequent cultural contexts . This point is discussed at the ...
... particular cultural context of prin- ciples of justice , humaneness , equality , responsibility , and so forth which are applicable , mutatis mutandis , to all people in sub- sequent cultural contexts . This point is discussed at the ...
الصفحة xix
... relationship with Yahweh and the community who shared in its privileges and re- sponsibilities . After all , the community and its relationship to God were realities whether or not at any particular historical period INTRODUCTION xix.
... relationship with Yahweh and the community who shared in its privileges and re- sponsibilities . After all , the community and its relationship to God were realities whether or not at any particular historical period INTRODUCTION xix.
المحتوى
The Land and Israels Relationship to God | 3 |
Land and Family | 44 |
The Family and Israels Relationship to Yahweh | 71 |
Conclusion | 104 |
Land and Property Ethics | 115 |
Property Owners Rights | 119 |
Property Owners Responsibilities | 142 |
Conclusion | 174 |
Wives | 183 |
Children | 222 |
Slaves | 239 |
Conclusion | 260 |
Selected Bibliography | 266 |
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Dependent Persons as Property | 181 |
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adultery Ancient Israel Ancient Israel's Criminal Anthony Phillips aspect belonging Bible Biblical Brichto Canaanite chapter child sacrifice concept concerned context covenant cultic death debt Decalog Deut Deuteronomy discussion divine ownership Early Israel economic evidence Exod Exodus fact fallow Family Law father firstborn Gerhard von Rad gift God's Goring Ox Gottwald Hebrew Hexateuch historical household husband inheritance interpretation Israel's Criminal Law Israel's relationship Israel's sonship Israelite Josh Jubilee judicial kin group kinship land tenure legal status Leviticus literary marriage Martin Noth means mōhar offense Old Testament original owner penalty person position practice promise prophets punishment redeemed redemption reference regarded relationship with Yahweh release religious repr Roland de Vaux S. R. Driver Sabbatical scholars significance Sinai slave social socio-economic sociological Tenth Commandment texts themes theological theophany tion traditions tribal Ugaritic verse whole wife wives woman women
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة x - JQR Jewish Quarterly Review JSOT .... Journal for the Study of the Old Testament JSS Journal of Semitic Studies JTS Journal of Theological Studies...