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The Face of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Face of New Testament Studies brings together New Testament experts, including James D. G. Dunn, Bruce Chilton, David DeSilva, Craig Evans, Craig Blomberg, Darrell Bock, Sean Freyne, and Donald Hagner, to track developments in their particular fields of research and to explain why those developments are important. The twenty-two contributors survey recent research into the historical, social,...

be seen by the land reform of Nehemiah, already in the Persian period (Neh. 5:1–12). Though the Hasmoneans subscribed to the Israelite ideal of “each man under his own vine” (1 Macc. 14:12), there is plenty of evidence that they too continued the policy of large estates in the conquered territories, as did the Herodians also.21 This pressure on the system meant that more and more people were driven off the land and reduced to penury. The results of this sketch, patchy though it is, suggest that there
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