A slow conversation between two voices about the introduction and first chapter of Roland Boer, The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2015). About an hour.
Covered: the book and its series, Boer’s life and work, the five building blocks and three regimes, why he calls the economy sacred, then chapter 1 on theory: Adam Smith’s barter myth, the buried Genesis in Grotius, Locke and Malthus, Wallerstein, Polanyi, Graeber, the Soviet scholars, Régulation theory and crisis as the norm, and reading texts as imaginary resolutions of real contradictions. It closes with Peter Altmann’s 2016 review, the Gottwald connection, and the link back to Ibrahim Abraham’s article in episode 1.
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