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Author Habel, Norman C.

Title The land is mine : six biblical land ideologies / Norman C. Habel ; foreword by Walter Brueggemann
Published Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [1995]
©1995

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 W'PONDS  221.6 Hab/Lim  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 190 pages ; 22 cm
Series Overtures to biblical theology
Overtures to biblical theology.
Contents 1. Orientation and Approach -- 2. Land as the Source of Wealth: A Royal Ideology -- 3. Land as Conditional Grant: A Theocratic Ideology -- 4. Land as Family Lots: An Ancestral Household Ideology -- 5. Land as YHWH's Personal nahalah: A Prophetic Ideology -- 6. Land as Sabbath Bound: An Agrarian Ideology -- 7. Land as Host Country: An Immigrant Ideology -- 8. Comparisons, Conclusions, and Implications -- Land Ideology Classification Grid
Summary Norman C. Habel identifies six discrete ideologies in the Hebrew Bible regarding land: royal, agrarian, theocratic, prophetic, ancestral household, and immigrant
Analysis Bible. Old Testament - Theology
Egypt in the Bible
Jews - History - Babylonian captivity, 598-515 B.C
Land tenure - Biblical teaching
Land use - Biblical teaching
Palestine in the Bible
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-168) and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168) and index
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96011927 -- Theology. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008984
Subject Jews -- History -- Babylonian captivity, 598 B.C.-515 B.C
Land tenure -- Biblical teaching.
Land use -- Biblical teaching.
SUBJECT Egypt -- In the Bible. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87006403
Palestine -- In the Bible. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097187
LC no. 94033755
ISBN 0800626648 (alk. paper)