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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...

All human wealth depends ultimately on what God has entrusted to us in the immeasurable riches of the earth’s crust. Even yet we have hardly begun to touch the resources in and under the oceans, so that for the most part and for all of human history wealth has been based on land. “Where there’s muck there’s money!” goes the old “earthy” saying. This is true, inasmuch as all that we can count as material goods
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