Land Tenure and the Biblical Jubilee: Uncovering Hebrew Ethics through the Sociology of KnowledgeBloomsbury Publishing, 01/02/1993 - 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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الصفحة 17
... priests were also engaged in this human process of ordering , maintaining and reforming the world which their predecessors had handed on to them . Once a world is created , the objects of that world , either material ( e.g. tools ) or ...
... priests were also engaged in this human process of ordering , maintaining and reforming the world which their predecessors had handed on to them . Once a world is created , the objects of that world , either material ( e.g. tools ) or ...
الصفحة 18
... priests refine a legal code for the purpose of creating a social base to support the world which they must rebuild , they are also influenced by the symbolic meanings they have been given by the pre- ceding generation . Both sides of ...
... priests refine a legal code for the purpose of creating a social base to support the world which they must rebuild , they are also influenced by the symbolic meanings they have been given by the pre- ceding generation . Both sides of ...
الصفحة 19
... priestly work . The priests clearly connected a particular cosmic order with a particular style of behavior , each implying the other to the point that to deny one meant to deny the other . The cult in all its complexity was given by ...
... priestly work . The priests clearly connected a particular cosmic order with a particular style of behavior , each implying the other to the point that to deny one meant to deny the other . The cult in all its complexity was given by ...
الصفحة 20
... priests were certainly a group of specialists dealing with the specific knowledge ( cultic matters ) who systemized the material in light of a particular notion of the world . The fourth stage , an explicit explica- tion of the symbolic ...
... priests were certainly a group of specialists dealing with the specific knowledge ( cultic matters ) who systemized the material in light of a particular notion of the world . The fourth stage , an explicit explica- tion of the symbolic ...
الصفحة 21
... priests had a certain moral world - view which organized the value meanings they received from their predecessors and formed the foundation of the jubilee . To understand that moral world - view is to understand the ethics of the ...
... priests had a certain moral world - view which organized the value meanings they received from their predecessors and formed the foundation of the jubilee . To understand that moral world - view is to understand the ethics of the ...
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A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE JUBILEE IN THE LATE EXILIC PERIOD | 37 |
THE MORAL WORLDVIEW OF THE JUBILEE | 83 |
CONCLUSION | 119 |
The Literary Strata of Leviticus 25 | 123 |
Selected Bibliography | 126 |
Index of References | 132 |
Index of Authors | 134 |
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