The Land Is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies

by Norman C. Habel (Editor)

Overview

Norman C. Habel identifies six discrete ideologies in the Hebrew Bible regarding land: royal, agrarian, theocratic, prophetic, ancestral household, and immigrant.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800626648
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	12/01/1993
Series:	Overtures to Biblical Theology
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Norman C. Habel is a Professorial Fellow at Flinders University in Adelaide. He has long been involved in issues of biblical interpretation, including reading the Bible from an ecological and a decolonizing perspective.

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

Editorial Reviews

...[S]eeks to make a fresh contribution to the literature on land by analyzing how the various concepts, images, beliefs, or theologies about land presented in biblical texts reflect several distinct ideologies....This book is a significant contribution to the discussion about the land theme in the Hebrew Scriptures. It does make abundantly clear that there is no monolithic concept of land in the Bible and that scholarly analysis of that theme must become more finely nuanced. —Society of Biblical Literature

Werner E. Lemke