Table des matières

• Index of Scripture references
• Index of Hebrew Terms
• Index of authors
• Index of subjects
• Editor's foreword
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Orientation and approach
  • The focus of this book
  • Selecting literary units
  • Reading ancient texts today
  • The audience in the text
  • Discerning a biblical ideology
  • Categories of analysis
  • Summary and implications
• Chapter 2: Land as the source of wealth: a royal ideology
  • Wisdom and wealth
  • Land and wealth
  • Land as empire
  • Monarch in heaven and monarch on earth
  • The just monarch and land rights
  • Summary
• Excursus on nah*alah
• Chapter 3: Land as conditional grant: a theocratic ideology
  • YHWH, the landowner
  • Land as gift
  • The land as good
  • The land treaty
  • The levites and the land
  • Land rights and justice
  • Summary
• Chapter 4: Land as family lots: an ancestral household ideology
  • Land allotment
  • YHWH, owner of the land
  • The vision and reality of conquest
  • Joshua, the ideal leader
  • An ancestral household ideal
  • Rights and resistance
  • Summary
• Chapter 5: Land as YHWH's personal nah*alah: a prophetic ideology
  • YHWH's own nah*alah
  • Polluting God's land
  • The suffering land
  • Redeeming the land
  • A new order in the land
  • Summary
• Chapter 6: Land as sabbath bound: an agrarian ideology
  • Landowner and land tenure
  • The land sabbath
  • The law of jubilee
  • Security and loss of tenure
  • The social order in the land
  • Summary
• Chapter 7: Land as host country: an immigrant ideology
  • The migration narrative
  • The promise charter
  • The land covenant
  • Land rights and peaceful relations
  • The god of the land
  • Summary
• Chapter 8: Comparisons, conclusions, and implications
  • Dominant images of the land
  • Location and function of God
  • Charters justifying entitlement
  • The locus of power and rights to the land
  • Rights of the land
  • Implications
• Table of land ideology, classification grid
• Bibliography