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Property and the Family in Biblical Law

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Property and the Family in Biblical Law - Westbrook, Raymond, Professor
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Biblical property law was concerned less with the efficient use and transfer of commercial assets than with protecting the rights of the family to the sources of their economic survival. This important collection of essays explores the legal link between property and family in the Bible, whether through the general law of inheritance or through special institutions such as redemption, the levirate and the sabbatical and jubilee years. It brings together the author's existing contributions, previously published in disparate ...

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Property and the Family in Biblical Law 2009, Sheffield Academic Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780567126177

Trade paperback

Property and the Family in Biblical Law 1991, Sheffield Academic Press

ISBN-13: 9781850752714

Hardcover