The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel

by Roland Boer

Book Overview

The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel offers a new reconstruction of the economic context of the Bible and of ancient Israel. It 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 R (c)gulation School) and textual and archaeological resources, Roland Boer makes it clear that economic oecrisis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664259669
• ISBN13: 9780664259662
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"