Abandoning jubilee: The structural causes of poverty
The jubilee law of Leviticus 25 is a radical economic plan that requires a leveling of real assets every fifty years, thus providing an economic structure that regularly dissolves large economic inequalities. Following the letter of the jubilee law in a modern non-agrarian economy is not possible, b...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Review and expositor
Year: 2019, Volume: 116, Issue: 1, Pages: 6-15 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Levitikus 25
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America NCE Business ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Jubilee
B Poverty B Leviticus 25 B Inequality |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | The jubilee law of Leviticus 25 is a radical economic plan that requires a leveling of real assets every fifty years, thus providing an economic structure that regularly dissolves large economic inequalities. Following the letter of the jubilee law in a modern non-agrarian economy is not possible, but this fact should not free us from the responsibility of adhering to the spirit of the law. A survey of social structures in the United States reveals an economy that is contrary to the spirit of jubilee-one that not only makes inequalities possible, but also makes escaping from poverty nearly impossible. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0034637319830954 |
