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Economics in Persian-period biblical texts : their interactions with economic developments in the Persian period and earlier biblical traditions
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- Creator
- Peter Altmann
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2016]
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- x, 342 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783161548130, 3161548132
- OCLC
- ocn962483436
- Habilitation Universität Zürich 2015
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-328) and indexes.
- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- History of scholarship and methodology -- Taking an outside view -- Economics in old testament studies -- Philosophical methodology -- Approaching a definition and methodology for understanding the economy and economic structures of ancient Israel -- Definitions of 'Economics' and 'Value' -- Current approaches to ancient economics : modernist, marxist, and substantivist analysis -- A way forward : new institutional economics -- The traditionally royal role of economics in mesopotamia -- Prices -- Wages -- Debt and interest -- Conclusions -- Economics, cult, and society in preexilic biblical texts -- Economics in preexilic Israel and Syro-Palestine -- Excurses : prices and exchange -- Economics in preexilic biblical texts -- Prophets -- Legal texts -- Kings -- The economic background of the Persian period -- The babylonian period in Yehud -- The transition to persian hegemony -- Persian imperial economy -- The rise of coinage : historical and methodological reflections -- The coinage of the greater persian economy -- Persepolis -- Babylonia -- The "Greek world" -- The phoenician city-states -- The philistine coast -- Egypt and elephantine -- Samaria and Wadi Daliyeh -- Idumea -- Yehud : the record of its material culture in the Persian period -- The rebuilding of the temple, the city of Jerusalem, and demography -- Yehud coinage -- Changes in the fourth century : historical and economic -- Conclusions from the material culture and coins -- Persian-period economics in Yehud -- Economics in Persian period biblical texts : broad contexts -- Chronicles -- Priestly document -- The "Holiness code" -- Deutero-Isaiah -- Haggai and Zechariah -- Trends and conclusions -- The historical and composition-critical setting of Ezra-Nehemiah -- Who pays? The economics of a theological question in Ezra 1-8 -- Ezra 2:68-69 -- Ezra 3:7 -- Ezra 4:13. 20 -- Ezra 6:4. 8-10, 13 -- Ezra 7:14-24 -- Conclusions from the Book of Ezra -- Nehemiah : the community-defining economic- ethics of tithes, taxes, commerce, and debt -- Nehemiah 3 : Pelek as work or military service -- Nehemiah 5:1-13 : lending and judean identity -- Philological reflections on economic terms in Neh 5:1-13 -- Compositional and historical location of Neh 5:1-13 -- Interpretation of Neh 5:1-13 -- Nehemiah 5:14-19 : the economics of nehemiah's table -- Philological, text-critical, and composition-critical observations -- The view from persepolis -- Greek views of Persian feasting -- Nehemiah's feasting : the economics of distribution -- Nehemiah 13:4-14 : the economics of temple affiliation -- Nehemiah 13:15-22 : economics and sacred time -- Conclusions from the book of Nehemiah -- Conclusion -- Bibliography