Tight Fists or Open Hands? Wealth and Poverty in Old Testament Law. By David L. Baker
David Baker lectures at Trinity Theological College, Perth, Western Australia, after many years in Indonesia. His experience in a less-developed country gives him some insight into the likely character and effect of differences of wealth in ancient Israel. It is a pleasure to welcome his remarkably...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 712-714 |
| Review of: | Tight fists or open hands? (Grand Rapids, Mich. [u.a.] : Eerdmans, 2009) (Houston, Walter J.)
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| Summary: | David Baker lectures at Trinity Theological College, Perth, Western Australia, after many years in Indonesia. His experience in a less-developed country gives him some insight into the likely character and effect of differences of wealth in ancient Israel. It is a pleasure to welcome his remarkably systematic and comprehensive study of all the Pentateuchal teaching on the subject, which is taken very broadly. The book is divided into three parts of roughly equal length, on ‘Property and Land’, ‘Marginal People’, and ‘Justice and Generosity’. Each part in turn contains three or four chapters on different subjects, and the chapters are again subdivided, normally into three. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq047 |