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The Land Is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies

The Land Is Mine: Six Biblical Land IdeologiesThe Land Is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies

The Land Is Mine

Six Biblical Land Ideologies

Norman C. Habel (Author)

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Norman C. Habel identifies six discrete ideologies in the Hebrew Bible regarding land: royal, agrarian, theocratic, prophetic, ancestral household, and immigrant.
  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800626648
  • Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
  • Pages 160
  • Publication Date December 1, 1993

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"The upshot of the book is to show in powerful ways both (a) that the Bible should not be read innocently, and that the God practiced in the several ideologies is a player in Israel's propertied life, and (b) that those old 'ideological-theological' positions continue to be poignantly pertinent in the world of contemporary interpretation."
-- Walter Brueggemann
from the Editor's Foreword

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations

1. Orientation and Approach
2. Land as the Source of Wealth: A Royal Ideology
3. Land as Conditional Grant: A Theocratic Ideology
4. Land as Family Lots: An Ancestral Household Ideology
5. Land as YHWH's Personal nahalah: A Prophetic Ideology
6. Land as Sabbath Bound: An Agrarian Idology
7. Land as Host Country: An Immigrant Ideology
8. Comparisons, Conclusions, and Implications

Land Ideology Classification Grid
Bibliography
Index of Scripture References
Index of Hebrew Terms
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
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