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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield ; Oakville, Connecticut :
Equinox Publishing,
2012.
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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