The economy of ancient Judah in its historical context
By: edited by Marvin Lloyd Miller, Ehud Ben Zvi, and Gary N. Knoppers
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781575064130
Subjects: Economics in the Bible; Bible; Jews; Wirtschaft; Criticism, interpretation; Finance; Bibel; Economic conditions; Juden; Biblical teaching; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Introduction; title: Cultivating Curiosity: Methods and Models for Understanding Ancient Aconomies  -- Marvin Lloyd Miller -- Part 2: Economic Indications from the Hebrew Bible; title: "Successful, Wise, Worthy Wife" of Proverbs 31:10-31 as a Source for Reconstructing Aspects of Thought and Economy in the Late Persian / Early Hellenistic Period  -- Ehud Ben Zvi; title: More than Friends? The Economic Relationship between Huram and Solomon Reconsidered  -- Gary N. Knoppers; title: Agrarian Economy through City-Elites' Eyes: Reflections of Late Persian Period Yehud Economy in the Genealogies of Chronicles  -- Louis Jonker; title: Ancient Comparisons, Modern Models, and Ezra-Nehemiah: Triangulating the Sources for Insights on the Economy of Persian Period Yehud  -- Peter Altmann -- Part 3: Economic Indications from Other Literary Sources; title: and the Seventh Year: Complementary Strategies for the Economic Recoverery of Depopulated Yehud  -- Philippe Guillaume; title: Exploitation of Depopulated Land in Achaemenid Judah  -- Lisbeth S. Fried; title: Achaemenid Policy of Reproduction  -- Josef Wiesehofer; title: Economy and Administration of Rural Idumea at the End of the Persian Period  -- Diana Edelman -- Part 4: Economic Indications from Archaeology; title: Forces of Decline and Regeneration: A Socioeconomic Account of the Iron Age II Negev Desert  -- Yifat Thareani; title: Rural Economy of Judah during the Persian Period and the Settlement History of the District System -- Oded Lipschits