Author: Pastor, Jack
Title: Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine
Description: London/New York, Routledge, 1997. 281 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Economic crisis was an endemic feature of the Second Temple Period of Jewish History. The argument of this book is that landownership is the fundamental constant underlying the varying problems - debt, taxation, famine, which plagued the Land of Israel-Palestine in these centuries. -- Jack Pastor offers a study of pivotal aspects of Land and Economy from the Persian period to the revolt of Bar Kokhba setting the events in the widest political and social context. -- The problems of landownership had a direct impact on diet and on the size and growth of the population. -- Related issues treated here include taxation, unemployment and the structure of the Jewish aristocracy. -- Jack Pastor effectively utilizes a wide variety of sources including the Bible, Apocrypha, Talmudic sources and scrolls from the Judaean Desert to produce a work of undeniable importance to any student of the period. ISBN: 9780415159609

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