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| Titre : | Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East |
| Auteurs : | Moshe Weinfeld, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Jerusalem [Israel] : Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1995 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8006-2596-2 |
| Format : | 300 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | CM/C (Etudes sur divers sujets AT) |
| Résumé : |
This book deals with the concept of justice and righteousness in ancient Israelite literature in comparison with identical concepts in the ancient Near East. Various aspects of this ideal concept are taken into consideration: philological, historical, sociological and theological. Moshe Weinfeld surveys social reforms in the ancient Near East from the third millenium BCE to the Hellenistic period. The first chapters discuss semantics and center on terms that denote social justice, such as social reforms embodied in the terms justice and righteousness and their equivalents in cognate languages. A separate chapter discusses the institutions of Shemitta and Jubilee in ancient Israel. A special discussion is dedicated to justice and righteousness on the individual level. Just as the ruler is commanded to do justice and righteousness — to free his subjects from oppression, so every individual is asked to help the poor and the needy in their distress, which is to do justice and righteousness with others.
The last part of the study is concerned with the theological aspects of the subject: God as King who performs justice and righteousness on three levels: cosmogonical (creation), national-historical (giving the Law and saving the people from its enemies) and universal-eschatological (salvation of the universe in the future). |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface - Introduction: The Proclamation of Liberty and the Concept of Freedom / The Liberated Person as the Servant of God / Justice and Righteousness as the Goal of the Individual / Righteousness and Justice in the Kingdom of God. - 1. “Justice and Righteousness” – mishpat vetsedaka: The Expression and its Meaning / Performing misarum in Mesopotamia and mishpat vetsedaka in Israel: The Concrete Meaning of the Concepts. - 2. Justice and Righteousness as the Task of the King - 3. Justice and Righteousness as the Task of the Eschatological King: The Biblical Prophecies Regarding the Establisher of Justice and Righteousness / The Shoot of Royalty / The Righteous King in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy. - 4. Proclamations of “Freedom” in Mesopotamia and their Reflections in Ancient Israel - 5. Privileges and Freedoms for Temple Cities: Rights of the Holy City of Jerusalem / Asylum and Refuge in the Holy City. - 6. Rights and Freedoms of Estates and Individuals - 7. Proclamations of “Freedom” in Egypt, Persia and Greece: Liberation in Persia, Greece and the Hellenistic World. - 8. Sabbatical Year and Jubilee in the Pentateuchal Laws and their Ancient Near Eastern Background: Remission of Debts in the Time of Nehemiah / The Institution of Jubilee and its Background. - 9. God Who Establishes Equity (misharim) and Performs Righteous Justice (mishpat vetsedaka): “Justice and Righteousness” in Jacob / Righteousness and Justice as Political Salvation / Righteousness and Justice in the Eschatological Sense / The Day of Atonement and Freedom. - 10. Justice and Righteousness as the Task of the Individual - 11. The Israelites as Servants of YHWH, and the Land of Israel as the Land of YHWH: On the Nature of the Judicial Pattern : Proclamation of “Liberty” and its Reflection in the Model of the Exodus / The Pattern of “Liberation” in the Prophecies of Second-Isaiah. - Abbreviations - Bibliography - Index of Sources / Index of Subjects / Index of Scholars |
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| CM/C 022 | CM/C 022 | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |
