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God’s People in God’s Land: Family, Land, and Property in the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

In recent sociological approaches to the Old Testament, Christians have been finding unexpected resources for their ethical reflection and action relative to the modern world’s pressing social and economic dilemmas. This unique survey by Christopher Wright examines life in Old Testament Israel from an ethical perspective by considering how the economic facts of Israel’s social structure were...

We have seen how Gerhard von Rad drives a wedge between the historical concept of the land of promise and gift, produced by the Yahwist’s fusion of patriarchal and settlement traditions, and the cultic concept of the land as owned by Yahweh.14 One suspects, however, that he has driven his wedge too deeply; rather, these two concepts should be seen as the two sides of one coin. Theologically, the land could be viewed from two angles. From Israel’s point of view
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