Subjugating and exploiting the second-class population of the ancient Israelite state : the case of forced labour (מַס) in light of the population economy of ancient Israel

dc.contributor.authorJenei, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-13T07:57:51Z
dc.date.available2020-03-13T07:57:51Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionThe present study is an edited and reworked version of the paper presented at the 2018 annual meeting of the Old Testament Society of Southern Africa. Potchefstroom, North-West University, August 14-16, 2018.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe so-called “forced labour” or “corvée labour” (מַס ) is a common and widespread institution of the ancient Near East. The Old Testament narratives of the early kingdom extensively refer to the same institution and describe it as a conventional tool of the king to maintain large-scale building projects by imposing forced labour on the subjects, both citizens and strangers alike. However, the biblical accounts related to forced labour witness that the nature and the amount of forced labour extremely hardens when it is imposed on the second-class population of the early Israelite monarchy: 1) second-class citizens (northern Israelites); 2) semi-assimilated residents (גֵּרִים ); or 3) non-assimilated strangers (native Canaanites, i.e. נָכְרִים , זָרִים ). Although there are detailed studies which treat the topic of forced labour in its ancient Near Eastern and ancient Israelite contexts, yet a study of מַס in the Old Testament concerning the above-mentioned population economy is a somewhat neglected angle of the field.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentOld Testament Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://academic.sun.ac.za/jnslen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationJenei, P 2019, 'Subjugating and exploiting the second-class population of the ancient Israelite state : the case of forced labour (מַס) in light of the population economy of ancient Israel', Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 57-72.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0529-0131
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/73746
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studiesen_ZA
dc.rightsStellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.en_ZA
dc.subjectForced labor
dc.subjectAncient Israel
dc.subjectEconomic exploitation
dc.subjectBible
dc.subjectSubjugation
dc.subjectSocial stratification
dc.subjectPopulation economy
dc.subjectClass and labor
dc.subjectBiblical perspectives
dc.subjectOld Testament narratives
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-08
dc.subject.otherSDG-08: Decent work and economic growth
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-16
dc.subject.otherSDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.titleSubjugating and exploiting the second-class population of the ancient Israelite state : the case of forced labour (מַס) in light of the population economy of ancient Israelen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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