The sacred economy: a reply to interlocutors

Title: The sacred economy: a reply to interlocutors
Creator: Boer, Roland
Relation: Horizons in Biblical Theology Vol. 38, Issue 2, p. 185-199
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341332
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: Let me begin by sincerely thanking my interlocutors for having taken the time to read and think about The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel in such a productive and thought-provoking way. I am of course thrilled by their positive observations, but even more taken with the pertinent questions they raise. I hope I can do the range of their questions at least some justice. I will deal with five issues: land and exchange; gender and exploitation; the nature of “religion”; justice and the problem of what might be next; and Marx’s phrase “all that is solid melts into air.” In order to frame my replies, I would like to stress a basic point concerning the book: so much study of economics focuses on those with economic power, however diverse they may be. My task was to deal not with the minority which was not engaged in productive labor. Instead, my starting point was the majority of productive laborers: those in the countryside, in village communities.
Subject: theology; Marxism; economics
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1346829
Identifier: uon:29937
Identifier: ISSN:0195-9085
Language: eng
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