Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Orientation and Approach

2. Land as the Source of Wealth: A Royal Ideology

3. Land as Conditional Grant: A Theocratic Ideology

4. Land as Family Lots: An Ancestral Household Ideology

5. Land as YHWH's Personal nahalah: A Prophetic Ideology

6. Land as Sabbath Bound: An Agrarian Idology

7. Land as Host Country: An Immigrant Ideology

8. Comparisons, Conclusions, and Implications

Land Ideology Classification Grid

Bibliography

Index of Scripture References

Index of Hebrew Terms

Index of Authors

Index of Subjects

About the Author

Norman C. Habel is a Professorial Fellow at Flinders University in Adelaide. He has long been involved in issues of biblical interpretation, including reading the Bible from an ecological and a decolonizing perspective.