An edition of Economics in Persian-period biblical texts
(2016)
Economics in Persian-period biblical texts
their interactions with economic developments in the Persian period and earlier biblical traditions
by Peter Altmann
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Economics in Persian-period biblical texts: their interactions with economic developments in the Persian period and earlier biblical traditions
2016, Mohr Siebeck
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Table of Contents
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 --
Conclusions --
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 --
Conclusions --
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.
Edition Notes
Originally presented as the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universität Zürich, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-328) and indexes.
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