Land, Credit and Crisis : Agrarian Finance in the Hebrew Bible.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Why Land and Credit? -- Why Crisis? -- The Structure of the Book -- Method -- Part I - Land -- 1 Land Tenure -- 1.1 Vines, Figs Trees and Their Possessors -- 1.2 When Theologians Write about Biblical Farmers -- 1.3 The Ambiguity of Terminology -- 1.4 Ottoman Land Categories -- 1.5 Pre-Islamic Land Categories -- 2 Communal Land -- 2.1 Musha' -- 2.2 Pre-Ottoman Musha' Tenure -- 2.3 Musha' in the Hebrew Bible? -- 2.4 Other Aspects of Ancient Palestinian Farming -- 3 The Myth of the Helpless Peasant -- 3.1 Collective Exclusivity and Bargaining Power -- 3.2 Peasant Mobility -- 3.3 Squatters -- 4 New Perspectives on Land Passages -- 4.1 Poor Naboth (1 Kgs 21) -- 4.2 Were Estates Established on Patrimonial Land (1 Sam. 8:14)? -- 4.3 The Shunamite's Usufruct (2 Kgs 8:1-6) -- 4.4 Ruth, Naomi and Elimelech's Land Share -- 4.5 Latifundia, Absentee Landlords and Landless Farmers -- 4.6 Chapter Summary -- Part II - Credit -- 5 Agricultural Credit -- 5.1 When Theologians Write about Ancient Credit -- 5.2 Joseph and the Hungry Egyptians: Taxes as Rent -- 5.3 Debt, Interest and Usury -- 5.4 A Simulation of Farm Credit -- 5.5 Loans to the Poor? -- 5.6 Foreclosure? -- 5.7 Loans to Make Money? -- 6 Debt and Patronage -- 6.1 Patronage versus Kin? -- 6.2 Compulsory versus Breakable Relations: King and Patron -- 6.3 The King: Patron of the Poor? -- 6.4 Biblical Prophets as Patrons? -- 6.5 Patrons as Merchants -- 7 Debt in the Bible -- 7.1 The Sons of a Wife of a Son of the Prophets (2 Kgs 4:1-7) -- 7.2 Nehemiah 5: Freeing Debt Slaves? -- 7.3 Job Who Must Have Sinned but Never Did -- 7.4 Yobel and semittah -- 7.5 Chapter Summary -- Part III - No Crisis in Yehud -- 8 Life in Yehud -- 8.1 Demography in Yehud.

8.2 Xerxes' Temple Destructions and the Priestly Document -- 9 Financing Production and Commerce -- 9.1 Seventh-year Debt Cancellation semittah -- 9.2 Sabbatical Year -- 9.3 The Ban on Interest against the Merchants of Benjamin -- 9.4 The Jubilee beyond Sentimental Piety -- General Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.

Land, Credit and Crisis presents a new understanding of the financial culture of the Bible.

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