The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel

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The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel offers a new

reconstruction of the economic context of the Bible and of ancient Israel. It argues

that the key to ancient economies is with those who worked on the land rather than

in intermittent and relatively weak kingdoms and empires. Drawing on sophisticated

economic theory (especially the RA ©gulation School) and textual and archaeological

resources, Roland Boer makes it clear that economic aEUROoecrisisaEURO was the norm and

that economics is always socially determined. He examines three economic layers: the

building blocks (five institutional forms), periods of relative stability (three

regimes), and the overarching mode of production. Ultimately, the most resilient of

all the regimes was subsistence survival, for which the regular collapse of kingdoms

and empires was a blessing rather than a curse. Students will come away with a clear

understanding of the dynamics of the economy of ancient Israel. Boer’s volume

should become a new benchmark for future studies.