Debt In The Ancient Mediterranean And Near East

Author : John Weisweiler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Credit
ISBN : 9780197647172

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Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East by John Weisweiler Pdf

In his Debt: The First 5000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber put forward a new grand narrative of world history. From the Late Bronze Age onwards, all across the Near East and Mediterranean, relationships of mutual obligation were transformed into quantifiable and legally enforceable debts. Graeber suggests that this transformation made possible new economic institutions, such as IOUs, coinage, and chattel slavery. It also led to the emergence of modes of thought that have shaped Eurasian philosophical and religious traditions ever since. Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East explores the implications of this theory for the history of the Mediterranean and Near East. A distinguished group of ancient historians assesses how well Graeber's interpretations fit current understandings of ancient and late antique economies. At the same time, this volume offers a history of premodern credit systems which takes seriously the dual nature of debt as both quantifiable economic reality and immeasurable social obligation. By exploring the diverse ways in which social relationships were quantified in different ancient and late antique societies, the work introduces a method of writing the history of premodern systems of exchange that departs from the currently dominant paradigm of neo-institutional economics.

Author : John Weisweiler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Credit
ISBN : 0197647197

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Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East by John Weisweiler Pdf

"This volume reconsiders the economic history of the ancient and late ancient Mediterranean and Near East from the perspective of David Graeber's anthropological theory. It pursues two purposes. On the one hand, it tests the accuracy of the grand narrative put forward in his 2011 monograph Debt: The First 5000 Years. Does the concept of a 'currency-slavery-warfare complex', in which monetization, state formation and the subjection of new fields of life to the logic of the market go hand in hand, shed new light on the political economies of the Near East and Mediterranean from around 700 BCE to 700 CE? On the other hand, this volume offers a history of ancient and late ancient credit systems which takes seriously the dual nature of debt as both a quantifiable economic reality and an immeasurable social obligation. By examining the multiplicity of ways in which social relationships were quantified in different societies, it tries out a method of writing the history of pre-modern systems of exchange that departs from the currently dominant paradigm of neo-institutional economics"--

Author : Michael Hudson,Marc Van de Mieroop
Publisher : Islet-Verlag
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015054431179

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Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient Near East by Michael Hudson,Marc Van de Mieroop Pdf

History and analysis of the economic and social development of debt, interest-bearing loans, royal remission of debts, and economic renewal policies.

Author : Joseph J. Tinguely
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031541360

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The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money by Joseph J. Tinguely Pdf

Author : Steven J. Garfinkle
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1444330519

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The Ancient Mediterranean and Near East, 3500 BC - 500AD by Steven J. Garfinkle Pdf

Author : Sarah C. Murray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031582103

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Models, Methods, and Morality by Sarah C. Murray Pdf

Author : Katrien De Graef,Anne Goddeeris
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646021208

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Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East by Katrien De Graef,Anne Goddeeris Pdf

Mesopotamia is often considered to be the birthplace of law codes. In recognition of this fact and motivated by the perennial interest in the topic among Assyriologists, the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale was organized in Ghent in 2013 around the theme “Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East.” Based on papers delivered at that meeting, this volume contains twenty-six essays that focus on archaeological, philological, and historical topics related to order and chaos in the Ancient Near East. Written by a diverse array of international scholars, the contributions to this book explore laws and legal practices in the Ur III, Old Babylonian, Middle Assyrian, and Neo-Assyrian periods in Mesopotamia, as well as in Nuzi and the Hebrew Bible. Among the subjects covered are the Code of Hammurabi, legal phraseology, the archaeological traces of the organization of community life, and biblical law. The volume also contains essays that explore the concepts of chaos/disorder and law/order in divinatory texts and literature. Wide-ranging and cutting-edge, the essays in this collection will be of interest to Assyriologists, especially members of the International Association for Assyriology.

Author : Maurizio Viano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501515316

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Debt and Indebtedness at Emar by Maurizio Viano Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar. The credit system is analyzed through several factors: the purpose of debts, i.e., productive or consumptive; the procedures for granting loans; the strategies put in place to meet an obligation and to cope with economic difficulties; the consequences of non-fulfillment, which may lead to servitude or slavery; the different types of slavery; slave prices; the mechanisms of enslavement; and termination of slavery. Moneylending practices and the formation of servile conditions at Emar are studied in the context of the Syrian economy aiming to understand whether the Emar evidence conforms with a socio political and economic crisis that is generally acknowledged to have struck Syria, Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia at the end of the Late Bronze Age. This work is of sure relevance for scholars interested in socio-economic history, not only of the pertinent historical-geographical area.

Author : J. G. Manning
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691202303

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The Open Sea by J. G. Manning Pdf

"In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single "ancient economy" has obscured the diversity of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during this period." -- Publisher's description

Author : Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785702839

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Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia Pdf

The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through “entrepreneurs”, the development of new trade circuits and an expanding private, small-scale economy, transformed the role previously played by institutions such as temples and royal palaces. The 17 essays collected here analyze the economic transformations which affected the old dominant powers of the Late Bronze Age, their adaptation to a new economic environment, the emergence of new economic actors and the impact of these changes on very different social sectors and geographic areas, from small communities in the oases of the Egyptian Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in Mesopotamia. Egypt was not an exception. Traditionally considered as a conservative and highly hierarchical and bureaucratic society, Egypt shared nevertheless many of these characteristics and tried to adapt its economic organization to the challenges of a new era. In the end, the emergence of imperial super-powers (Assyria, Babylonia, Persia and, to a lesser extent, Kushite and Saite Egypt) can be interpreted as the answer of former palatial organizations to the economic and geopolitical conditions of the early Iron Age. A new order where competition for the control of flows of wealth and of strategic trading areas appears crucial.

Author : Karen Radner,Nadine Moeller,D. T. Potts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190687878

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The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East by Karen Radner,Nadine Moeller,D. T. Potts Pdf

This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a highly diverse, international team of leading scholars, whose expertise brings to life the people, places, and times of the remote past, the volumes in this series focus firmly on the political and social histories of the states and communities of the ancient Near East. Individual chapters present the key textual and material sources underpinning the historical reconstruction, paying particular attention to the most recent archaeological finds and their impact on our historical understanding of the periods surveyed. Commencing with the domestication of plants and animals, and the foundation of the first permanent settlements in the region, Volume I contains ten chapters that provide a masterful survey of the earliest dynasties and territorial states in the ancient Near East, concluding with the rise of the Old Kingdom in Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad in Mesopotamia. Politics, ideology, religion, art, crafts, economy, military developments, and the built environment are all examined. Uniquely, emphasis is placed upon elucidating both the internal dynamics of these states and communities, as well as their external relationships with their neighbors in the wider region. The result is a thoughtful, critical, and robust survey of the populations that laid the foundation for all future developments in the ancient Near East.

Author : Benjamin D. Gordon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110421026

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Land and Temple by Benjamin D. Gordon Pdf

This exploration of the Judean priesthood’s role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE–70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience. Temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner and affording the land sanctity protections. Such arrangements can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible’s assertion that God is the owner of the land of Israel. They can also shed light on references in early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the priesthood or the temple.

Author : Johanna Hanink
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674978300

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The Classical Debt by Johanna Hanink Pdf

“Greek debt” means one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who prize culture over capital, it means the symbolic debt we owe Greece for democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Johanna Hanink shows that our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes our view of the country’s economic hardship and refugee crisis.

Author : Murat Ustaoğlu,Ahmet İncekara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000089936

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A History of Interest and Debt by Murat Ustaoğlu,Ahmet İncekara Pdf

With the spread of interest-based transactions, major problems such as inequality, poverty and debt-based slavery have emerged. Those who practiced professions such as usury have, despite the negative connotations attributed to them, contributed extensively to the construction of the conventional financial system in the global economy, suggesting that the core concepts in this practice need to be analyzed in greater depth and from a historical perspective. This book analyzes the evolution of interest-bearing debt transactions from ancient times to the era of Abrahamic religions. In modern times, interest is strictly prohibited by Islam, but this book demonstrates that it is a practice that has been condemned and legally and morally prohibited in other civilizations, long before Islam outlawed it. Exploring the roots of this prohibition and how interest has been justified as a viable practice in economic and financial transactions, the book offers deep insight into the current nature of finance and economics, and the distinctive features of Islamic finance in particular and enables researchers to further delve into a review of interest-free financing models. Islamic finance, or alternative financial methods, have become extremely popular particularly in the aftermath of global financial crises, suggesting that they will attract further interest in the future as well. The book is primarily aimed at undergraduate and graduate students but, as it avoids the use of technical jargon, it also speaks to a general readership. It will appeal to those who have an interest in financial history, particularly the history of debt as well.

Author : Timothy J. Gorringe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978711235

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Word, Silence, and the Climate Emergency by Timothy J. Gorringe Pdf

Word, Silence, and the Climate Emergency: God, Ekklesia, and Christian Doctrine is an exposition of Christian doctrine taking into account the current global emergency. Gorringe grounds our knowledge of God first in the revelation to the prophets and specifically in their political stance but above all in Jesus of Nazareth. God, or the NAME, Gorringe argues, is the antithesis of all the gods of projection, known in the silence of the cross and of the isolation cell. In a Triune format, the nature of God and the discourse of creation and providence are first considered before turning to the claim that “God was in Christ.” The final third of the book considers the nature and task of ekklesia, especially in the light of the global emergency which, Gorringe argues, is a confessional issue and the heart of ekklesia's present concern.