- Title
- Three questions on economics for G.E.M. de Ste. Croix
- Creator
- Boer, Roland
- Relation
- Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines p. 219-229
- Relation
- https://secure.aidcvt.com/sbl/ProdDetails.asp?ID=069204P
- Publisher
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The Marxist classicist, Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, belongs to the venerable if less-populated tradition of Marxist economic minimalism in regard to the ancient world, a tradition that includes Karl Polanyi and Moses Finley. Ste. Croix's major contribution is to have mounted a sustained and largely persuasive argument for the importance of class in the economies of ancient Greece and Rome, an argument that has profound relevance for biblical analysis. In what follows, I provide a brief account of Ste. Croix's central argument before exploring three questions concerning his account: one concerns trade, which is profoundly useful, and the other two property and mode of production, where Ste. Croix is found wanting.
- Subject
- G. E. M. de St. Croix; Marxism; economics; Bible
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055800
- Identifier
- uon:15937
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781589839243
- Language
- eng
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