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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - 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