Philippe Guillaume

Land, Credit and Crisis

Agrarian Finance in the Hebrew Bible

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781845539283
• ISBN-10: 1845539281
• Artikelnr.: 42954497

Autorenporträt

Philippe Guillaume is a trained agriculturalist, theologian and biblical archaeologist, and has taught Old Testament/Hebrew Bible in Switzerland, Lebanon and England. He is currently writing a Habilitationsschrift at the University of Berne.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Land 1. Land Tenure 2. Communal Land 3. The Myth of
the Helpless Peasant 4. New Perspectives on Land Passages Part II: Credit
5. Agricultural Credit 6. Debt and Patronage 7. Debt in the Bible Part III:
No Crisis in Yehud 8. Life in Yehud 9. Financing Production and Commerce
General Conclusion