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Land, credit and crisis : agrarian finance in the Hebrew Bible /

Land, Credit and Crisis presents a new understanding of the financial culture of the Bible. Biblical Palestine was characterized by an over-abundance of arable land combined with a chronic lack of manpower and agricultural credit - circumstances which lead to much prophetic fulminating against merch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guillaume, Philippe, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sheffield ; Oakville, Connecticut : Equinox Publishing, 2012.
Colección:Bible world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Land
  • 1. Land tenure
  • 2. Communal land
  • 3. The myth of the helpless peasant
  • 4. New perspectives on land passages
  • Part II: Credit
  • 5. Agricultural credit
  • 6. Debt and patronage
  • 7. Debt in the Bible
  • Part III: No crisis in Yehud
  • 8. Life in Yehud
  • 9. Financing production and commerce
  • General conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index of biblical passages
  • Index of authors
  • Index of subjects