Economics in Persian-period biblical texts
Subtitle: their interactions with economic developments in the Persian period and earlier biblical traditions
By: Peter Altmann
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 109; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 109.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9783161548130
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Economics in the Bible; History; Economic conditions; Civilization; Wirtschaft; Bible; "Bible
Other titles: Their interactions with economic developments in the Persian period and earlier biblical traditions
Notes: Originally presented as the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universität Zürich, 2015.

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