Property and the Family in Biblical Law
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Overview
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 survey 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the author's existing contributions, previously published in disparate law journals, to which have been added several unpublished studies and a general introduction.
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- Title: Property and the Family in Biblical Law
- Authors: Raymond Westbrook
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Publication Date: 2009
- Pages: 177