The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel
Overview
The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel offers a new reconstruction of the economic context of the Bible and of ancient Israel. The author argues that the key to ancient economies is with those who worked on the land rather than in intermittent and relatively weak kingdoms and empires. Drawing on sophisticated economic theory (especially the Régulation School) and textual and archaeological resources, Roland Boer makes it clear that economic “crisis” was the norm and that economics is always socially determined. He examines three economic layers: the building blocks (five institutional forms), periods of relative stability (three regimes), and the overarching mode of production. Ultimately, the most resilient of all the regimes was subsistence survival, for which the regular collapse of kingdoms and empires was a blessing rather than a curse. Readers will gain a clear understanding of the dynamics of the economy of ancient Israel. Boer’s volume should serves as a new benchmark for future studies of ancient Israel.
- Title: The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel
- Author: Roland Boer
- Edition: First edition
- Series: Library of Ancient Israel
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Economics in the Bible; Sociology, Biblical; Jews › History--To 70 A.D; Economics › Religious aspects
- ISBNs: 9780664259662, 0664259669
- Resource ID: LLS:SCRDCNMYNCNTSRL
- Resource Type: Monograph
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