Temples, Tithes, and Taxes
Temples, Tithes, and Taxes

Author: Marty E. Stevens

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0801047773

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Introductory matters -- Temple construction -- Temple personnel -- Temple income -- Temple expenses -- Temple as "bank" -- Concluding matters.

The Politics of Ancient Israel
The Politics of Ancient Israel

Author: Norman Karol Gottwald

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780664219772

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This work offers a reconstruction of the politics of ancient Israel within the wider political environment of the ancient Near East. Gottwald begins by questioning the view of some biblical scholars that the primary factor influencing Israel's political evolution was its religion.

The Reforming Kings
The Reforming Kings

Author: Rich Lowry

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1991-08-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 056717381X

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An illuminating examination of the emergence of deuteronomic theology in pre-exilic Judah. Judaean deuteronomism grew as a response to the social unrest of the Assyrian period, channelling popular discontent away from the Davidic monarchy and towards foreign imperialism. The author brings together different strands of current scholarship, studying the economy of monarchical Judah and Israel, and examining the commanding social role of the Davidic monarchy. Lowery also discusses Ahaz and the economic and religious impact of Assyrian imperialism, and concludes with a discussion of the Manasseh narrative in Kings as a systematic rejection of the pre-deuteronomic First Temple status quo.

Tithe as Gift
Tithe as Gift

Author: Menahem Herman

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780773499591

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This work studies the biblical tithe from anthropological and theological perspectives. It explores tithe as gift rather than tax, the latter being the common interpretation to date.

Josiah's Passover
Josiah's Passover

Author: Shigeyuki Nakanose

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-03-10

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1592445705

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Focusing on the celebrated story of Josiah's Passover in 2 Kings, Shigeyuki Nakanose provides a dramatic demonstration of the contribution of sociological hermeneutics to contemporary Biblical exegesis. This method complements historical-critical exegesis by reconstructing the social systems of Biblical communities in their religious as well as their economic and political orders. After introducing the sociological method and a brief consideration of historical and literary-critical readings of Josiah's Passover, Nakanose explicates the method of sociological analysis and its facets - economic, social, political, and ideological. Turning to the text itself, he shows clearly how the process of liturgical purification it describes is intimately tied to the centralization of political and commercial interests in ancient Israel. He then goes on to demonstrate, using the experience of Brazilian base communities, what happens when this critical reading is joined with critical reflection on the reader's own social location.

Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy

Author: Jack R. Lundbom

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-03-08

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1532603711

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This book on Deuteronomy seeks to place before a broad audience of students and lay readers one of the important books among the first five books (together called the Pentateuch) in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. It lifts up major themes in the book, one of the most prominent being Moses as prophet par excellence. Deuteronomy is the Old Testament's major book on law and covenant, re-presenting the Ten Commandments given to Israel at Mount Horeb (also known as Sinai). But the book is more concerned to present the Deuteronomic Code (in chapters 12-26) taught to Israel in the plains of Moab, just before Moses dies and Israel is to cross the Jordan River into Canaan. The writer of Deuteronomy is not Moses, as stated in the Jewish Talmud, but most likely a Levitical priest in the late eighth or early seventh century BC who assumes the persona of Moses in Judahite worship. Two old poems, the Song of Moses (32:1-43) and the Blessing of Moses (chapter 33), appear in a final supplement to the book, which then closes with an account of Moses's death and burial in Moab.