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The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for Life: An Invitation to Personal Ecclesial and Social Transformation
The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for An Invitation to Personal Ecc...
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170 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1999
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May 21, 2013
This was a book both good and bad. The book soars when it is actually focused on expositing the Jubilee laws and tying them to Sabbath Worship, and then to modern life. This is the heart and core of the book, and its message is vital to our understanding of both the OT and the teachings of Jesus and the Church.
Yet all is not well in the book. I found myself repeatedly skimming through bits of the book which either do not take the OT seriously as a work of literature or dice it up into higher critical bits. There is no need to believe that the OT was written during the Babylonian exile, and plenty of reasons not to think that. There are less reasons to believe the documentary hypothesis. For this reason I couldn't give it five stars.
Nevertheless, those parts are easy enough to disregard or breeze past that the book is still well worth reading for the important parts, the discussion of the importance of the Jubilee, both for Israel and Jesus, and for us in the modern world.
Yet all is not well in the book. I found myself repeatedly skimming through bits of the book which either do not take the OT seriously as a work of literature or dice it up into higher critical bits. There is no need to believe that the OT was written during the Babylonian exile, and plenty of reasons not to think that. There are less reasons to believe the documentary hypothesis. For this reason I couldn't give it five stars.
Nevertheless, those parts are easy enough to disregard or breeze past that the book is still well worth reading for the important parts, the discussion of the importance of the Jubilee, both for Israel and Jesus, and for us in the modern world.
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