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““When economic imbalances became extreme, the lack of equilibrium and viability could threaten social and political order.””

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“Generally, three approaches to the law codes of the ancient Near East are adduced. Some scholars see them as idyllic collections of judicial problems…

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“A peasant—a small landowner—resides on a small plot of privately owned lands, and engages in subsistence farming.25 As his margins of profit are slim,…

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“What we will see time and again is the way preexisting concepts and institutions in ancient Near Eastern culture are reworked according to a…

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“Deuteronomy’s notion of tithes—that for two out of three years surplus is shared broadly with the disadvantaged, and in the third year is given…

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“Motifs recur in independent fashion because they are universal. And when such events actually happen, people like to tell of them. Equally evident, however,…

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