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Jubilee in the Bible : using the theology of Jürgen Moltmann to find a new hermeneutic.
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ISBN: 9789004343467 9004343466 9789004343474 9004343474 Year: 2018 Volume: 156 Publisher: Boston Brill

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The biblical message of Jubilee is becoming more credible in our days in dealing with the socio-economic and moral-spiritual issues of today’s world. It continues to exercise a powerful influence on the religious thoughts and actions of God’s people. In addition to that, this book reveals a new hermeneutical code of reading and interpreting the message of Jubilee. The synthesis of the exegetical analysis of the biblical texts regarding the Jubilee and Sabbath/Sabbath year and Moltmann’s understanding of this subject reveals the meaning and significance of the topic, how it is recognized, as well as its implications in today’s world. This synthesis reveals a new vision and starting point for socio-economic and moral-spiritual reform in our time. “The biblical Sabbat / Jubilee-traditions are much richer than we thought. This book shows it. Theologically often neglected they are a source of new ideas to solve problems of human community and the ecology of the earth. That my theological works can be used to apply them today, is a surprise to me, a happy surprise.” Jürgen Moltmann

The jubilee from Leviticus to Qumran : a history of interpretation
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ISSN: 00835889 ISBN: 1281400262 9786611400262 9047410564 9789047410560 9789004152991 9004152997 9789047410560 9781281400260 6611400265 Year: 2007 Volume: 115 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The observation of the Jubilee Year 2000 by many Christian groups worldwide generated renewed interest in the theological, historical, and socio-economic aspects of the biblical jubilee. This book begins with an analysis of the historical origins of the jubilee institution in ancient Israel, and then traces the reinterpretation of the jubilee and the text of Leviticus 25 through the Old Testament, the Second Temple literature, and the Qumran documents. It demonstrates that, with the passage of time, the socio-economic implementation of the jubilee is increasingly de-emphasized in favor of an eschatological interpretation, in which the jubilee itself functions as a type of the final age, and cycles of jubilee years are employed to calculate when this age will arrive.


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Land, credit and crisis : agrarian finance in the Hebrew Bible
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ISBN: 1845539273 1315478331 1315478315 1844658759 1315478323 9781844658756 9781315478319 9781845539276 9781845539283 1845539281 9781315478333 9781315478302 Year: 2012 Publisher: Durham : Acumen Publishing,

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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 merchants and the rich. The book reveals how the financial instruments and institutions of the time reflected a tough economic realism and argues that the image of the biblical prophet as a champion of social justice must be revised.

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