U.S. Small Farm Policy Scenarios for the Eighties

Humphries, Frederick S.

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“…60 It appears that the wellbeing of both modern and ancient farmers along the Mediterranean has been susceptible to hardship as a result of increased commercialization. Anderson, e State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya: 1830-1980(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), 44. Johnson, et al, 'Rangeland and Marginal Cereal Cropland in Central Tunisia', Rangelands 11, no.…”

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Caught in the Crossfire? Economic Injustice and Prophetic Motivation in Eighth-Century Judah

Coomber¹

2011

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Prophetic complaints against landownership abuse that are attributed to eighth-century Judah pose an interpretive problem: their contextual ambiguity. Passages like as Isa. 5.8-10 decry land seizures but lack key socio-economic variables: motivations and the identities of perpetrators and victims. Faced with scarce archaeological and biblical evidence pertaining to landownership in the eighth century, several scholars have turned to the social sciences for clues. Marvin Chaney and D.N. Premnath have found interpretive value in cultural-evolutionary theory.Cultural-evolutionary theorists, like Gerhard Lenski and Timothy Earle, find that recurring patterns tend to emerge as agrarian societies experience rapid economic development and increased trade, including an abandonment of subsistence strategies, land consolidation, and a hoarding of the benefits amongst elites. While Chaney and Premnath have successfully used this model to explore economic abuses attributed to eighth-century Judah, when the region was absorbed into the Assyrian trade nexus, the effects of these recurring societal patterns on religious institutions have yet to be explored by biblical scholars.Religious practices and norms that support outmoded economic strategies tend to be overturned during these transitional periods to accommodate new economic goals. While some religious leaders are forced to choose between either honouring long-held traditions or capitulating to a new economic environment, others find that their place in society is rendered obsolete. rough considering these cultural-evolutionary patterns alongside Hezekiah's religious reforms, this paper explores the possibility that prophetic authors who condemned the displacement of farmers may have also been protesting their own displacement in an evolving Judean society.

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Caught in the Crossfire? Economic Injustice and Prophetic Motivation in Eighth-Century Judah

Coomber¹

2011

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The survival of the black tobacco farmer: Empirical results and policy dilemmas

Schulman¹,

Newman²

1991

Agric Hum Values

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Discussion: Teaching, Research, and Extension Programs at Predominantly Black Land-Grant Institutions

Guedry

1985

J. Agric. Appl. Econ.

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Williamson and Williams are to be complacing the Land-Grant System in furplimented for their willingness to address ther competition with other demands this broad and complex subject. The historfor limited state funds. Given the antiical and philosophical perspective presented tax attitude that is in evidence across by Williamson provides the framework for the country, the competition for state focusing on the major issues confronting the funds can be expected to intensify. Con-Land-Grant System as suggested by Williams sequently, justification for programs and in reference to programs at predominantly the elimination of program duplication black land-grant institutions. 1 There is, I beacross institutions will continue to be lieve, general agreement within the Landdemanded. Grant System that the focus of the System's Given these general trends affecting the teaching, research, and extension programs growth and direction of programs in land

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U.S. Small Farm Policy Scenarios for the Eighties

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Caught in the Crossfire? Economic Injustice and Prophetic Motivation in Eighth-Century Judah

Caught in the Crossfire? Economic Injustice and Prophetic Motivation in Eighth-Century Judah

The survival of the black tobacco farmer: Empirical results and policy dilemmas

Discussion: Teaching, Research, and Extension Programs at Predominantly Black Land-Grant Institutions

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