Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East
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Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East

Guide to the Bible and Economics, Volume 1

  1. 340 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East

Guide to the Bible and Economics, Volume 1

About this book

Over the past few decadesbiblical economicshas developed into an important subfield of biblical studies. Through examining the economic realities that lay behind Hebrew biblical texts and archaeological findings, biblical economics has led to greater understandings of the cultures and experiences of ancient Hebrew communities, the legal and religious texts they produced, and of how those texts may or may not relate to the experiences of communities who continue to receive them, today.Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near Easthas brought together ten scholars of biblical economics and one economic anthropologist to create a repository of what is understood about the economic realities of Southwest Asia in the late second and first millennia BCE. In addition to furthering the research and teaching interests of biblical scholars, this volume has also been created for the benefit of economic historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Contributors
  5. 1. The Importance of Biblical Economics to the Field of Biblical Studies
  6. 2. Introducing Economy in the Ancient World
  7. 3. Production and Allocation in Ancient Southwest Asian Economics
  8. 4. Economic Relationships Found in the Worlds of the Bible
  9. 5. Women and Economics in Ancient Israel and Judah
  10. 6. Understanding Law in Ancient Near Eastern Context
  11. 7. Economics in Israelite Law
  12. 8. Ideologies of Kingship and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
  13. 9. The Economy and Israelite Prophecy from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries bce
  14. 10. Economic Aspects of Wisdom and Apocalypticism