Leviticus 25’s History of Inspiring Freedom as a Moral Challenge to Literary-Historical Interpretation

Though Leviticus 25’s description of the Jubilee sounds unrealistically utopian to many biblical scholars, the Jubilee ideal has stimulated many movements for freedom and economic reform in the last 500 years. It most famously motivated enslaved people to resist and abolitionists to challenge the in...

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Main Author: Watts, James W. 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2023, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 265-291
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible. Levitikus 25 / Slavery / Debt cancellation / Historical criticism / Historicity / Literary criticism / Reception
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Slavery
B Environmentalism
B literary context
B land reform
B Debt relief
B Leviticus 25
B utopian
B ancient historical context
B Biblical Interpretation
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