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Land, Credit and Crisis - Agrarian Finance in the Hebrew Bible (Paperback)
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Land, Credit and Crisis - Agrarian Finance in the Hebrew Bible (Paperback)
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In light of the growing knowledge derived from economic studies of
ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and of Ottoman Syria, social-scientific
exegesis of the Hebrew scriptures are in need of a serious
overhaul. This study offers a new perspective on biblical texts
relative to farming (Naboths vineyard, Ruth, the Shunamite, Job,
Nehemiah 5 and others) that challenges some exegetical shibboleths:
private property, latifundia, absentee landlord, foreclosure,
landless farmers, parasitic cities, usury, and the presentation of
farmers as helpless victims. Biblical Palestine was characterized
by an over-abundance of arable land, a chronic lack of manpower and
of agricultural credit. Prophetic fulminations against merchants
and the rich should not be taken at face value. They need to be
understood in the framework of patronage. The icon of the biblical
prophet as a champion of social justice is discarded and replaced
by a fresh assessment of the three pillars of the biblical
financial system: the seventh-year shemittah, the jubilee and the
ban on interest. Usually considered utopian, these institutions
display the kind of economic realism that is required to move
biblical exegesis beyond pious slogans.
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