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| Author | : Moshe Weinfeld |
| Publisher | : Hebrew University Magnes Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : |
In this fascinating and informative work, Weinfeld investigates the ideal of justice in relation to social reforms promoted by Israelite monarchy, the implications of the ideal in individual life, and the theological implications of all aspects of the concept.
| Author | : Frederick E. Greenspahn |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 1991-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 081473037X |
| Author | : Douglas A. Knight |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0664221440 |
Using socio-anthropological theory and archaeological evidence, Knight argues that while the laws in the Hebrew Bible tend to reflect the interests of those in power, the majority of ancient Israelites--located in villages--developed their own unwritten customary laws to regulate behavior and resolve legal conflicts in their own communities. This book includes numerous examples from village, city, and cult. --from publisher description
| Author | : J. David Pleins |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 610 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780664221751 |
J. David Pleins presents a sociological study of the Hebrew Bible, seeking to uncover its social vision by examining biblical statements about social ethics. He does this within the framework provided by Israel's social institutions, the social locations of its actors, and the historical struggles for power and survival that are reflected in the transmission of the texts.
| Author | : Norman Karol Gottwald |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780664219772 |
This work offers a reconstruction of the politics of ancient Israel within the wider political environment of the ancient Near East. Gottwald begins by questioning the view of some biblical scholars that the primary factor influencing Israel's political evolution was its religion.
| Author | : Léon Epsztein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Middle East |
| ISBN | : |
One of a series of supplementary volumes published alongside the Jerusalem Bible in France and intended to provide a general introduction to the world in which the Bible is set. It is an exhaustive study of the legal and sociological background of texts dealing with social justice, first in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and then in pre-exilic Israel.
| Author | : Terence E. Fretheim |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2015-04-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1575067226 |
Terence E. Fretheim has long been a leading voice in Old Testament theology. In this volume, thirty of his classic studies have been gathered together for the first time under the rubrics “God and the World”, “God and Suffering”, “God, Wrath, and Divine Violence”, “God and the Pentateuch”, “God and the Prophets”, and “God and the Church’s Book”. Here readers can find a compelling answer to the question that has motivated Fretheim’s work for more than forty years—namely, what kind of God is the God of Scripture? The studies are introduced by a critical overview of Fretheim’s career and theology by the editors and a retrospective by Fretheim himself.
| Author | : C. L. Crouch |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2010-01-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 311022352X |
The monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. It argues that a common cosmological and ideological outlook generated similarities in ethical thinking. In all three societies, the mythological traditions surrounding creation reflect a strong connection between war, kingship and the establishment of order. Human kings’ military activities are legitimated through their identification with this cosmic struggle against chaos, begun by the divine king at creation. Military violence is thereby cast not only as morally tolerable but as morally imperative. Deviations from this point of view reflect two phenomena: the preservation of variable social perspectives and the impact of historical changes on ethical thinking. The research begins the discussion of ancient Near Eastern ethics outside of Israel and Judah and fills a scholarly void by placing Israelite and Judahite ethics within this context, as well as contributing methodologically to future research in historical and comparative ethics.
| Author | : Roland Boer |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 570 |
| Release | : 2015-04-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1611645557 |
The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel offers a new reconstruction of the economic context of the Bible and of ancient Israel. It argues that the key to ancient economies is with those who worked on the land rather than in intermittent and relatively weak kingdoms and empires. Drawing on sophisticated economic theory (especially the Régulation School) and textual and archaeological resources, Roland Boer makes it clear that economic “crisis†was the norm and that economics is always socially determined. He examines three economic layers: the building blocks (five institutional forms), periods of relative stability (three regimes), and the overarching mode of production. Ultimately, the most resilient of all the regimes was subsistence survival, for which the regular collapse of kingdoms and empires was a blessing rather than a curse. Students will come away with a clear understanding of the dynamics of the economy of ancient Israel. Boer's volume should become a new benchmark for future studies.
| Author | : Katrien De Graef |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2021-05-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1646021185 |
Mesopotamia is often considered to be the birthplace of law codes. In recognition of this fact and motivated by the perennial interest in the topic among Assyriologists, the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale was organized in Ghent in 2013 around the theme “Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East.” Based on papers delivered at that meeting, this volume contains twenty-six essays that focus on archaeological, philological, and historical topics related to order and chaos in the Ancient Near East. Written by a diverse array of international scholars, the contributions to this book explore laws and legal practices in the Ur III, Old Babylonian, Middle Assyrian, and Neo-Assyrian periods in Mesopotamia, as well as in Nuzi and the Hebrew Bible. Among the subjects covered are the Code of Hammurabi, legal phraseology, the archaeological traces of the organization of community life, and biblical law. The volume also contains essays that explore the concepts of chaos/disorder and law/order in divinatory texts and literature. Wide-ranging and cutting-edge, the essays in this collection will be of interest to Assyriologists, especially members of the International Association for Assyriology.
