The latest from Brill is “Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings” by my colleague and friend, Dr. Roger S. Nam.
Here’s the blurb:
With the growing proliferation of literature concerning the social world of the Hebrew Bible, scholars continue to face the challenge of a proper understanding of ancient Israel’s economies. Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings is the first monographic study to use an anthropological approach to examine the nature of the economic life behind the biblical text. Through Karl Polanyi’s paradigm of exchange as a methodological control, this book synthesizes Semitic philology with related fields of Levantine archaeology and modern ethnography. With this interdisciplinary frame, Nam articulates a social analysis of economic exchange, and stimulates new understandings of the biblical world.
Few people know this, but people often confuse me with Roger.
Go ye therefore and buy it!
Filed under: ancient near east, bible, books Tagged: | Book of Kings, brill, economic, exchange, hebrew bible, Karl Polanyi, philology, portrayals, roger s. nam, social analysis, ucla
Sounds good but Brill is always way too damn expensive!
Lynn
Man, bibliobloggers link to all these cool things I can’t buy because I’m unemployed! Well, thanks for the recommendation. I can at least put it on my wishlist. Lynn wasn’t kidding about the price!
Only problem = BRILL. Who can afford Brill that isn’t a major library? The only Brill books I have ever even laid my hands on were either on the discount table at SBL or were review copies sent to friends or profs!