Economic aspects of wisdom and apocalypticism / Samuel L. Adams. Introducing economy in the ancient world / Kenneth Hirth -- Production and allocation in ancient Southwest Asian economics / Roland Boer -- Economic relationships found in the worlds of the Bible / Roland Boer, Christina Petterson -- Women and economics in ancient Israel and Judah / Cynthia Shafer-Elliott -- Understanding law in ancient Near Eastern context / Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley -- Economics in Israelite law / Douglas A. Knight -- Ideologies of kingship and the sacred in the ancient Near East / Rainer Kessler -- The economy and Israelite prophecy from the eighth to the sixth centures BCE / Davis Hankins -- Economic aspects of wisdom and apocalypticism / Samuel L. Adams.
Summary:
"Over the past few decades biblical economics has 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 East has 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." -- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Guide to the Bible and economics ; volume 1 Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice series
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.