TD-Department of Biblical and Theological Studies (PhD)

Permanent URI for this collection

https://repo.pacuniversity.ac.ke/handle/123456789/3887

Browse

Browsing TD-Department of Biblical and Theological Studies (PhD) by Issue Date

Filter results by year or month
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    Land Rights; Justice in Land use and Management According to Leviticus 25
    (Pan Africa Christian University, 2019-06) Kangala, Patrick Makanga
    The thesis deals with land rights in Ancient Israel with a comparison to the Kenyan context and gives a conclusive deduction on the land rights based on Leviticus25. The main argument of this thesis is that the land in Ancient Israel was under supreme ownership of Yahweh, who spelled the terms of land use and management in comparison to the Ancient Near East Communities, Egypt and Mesopotamia where land belonged to a different tenure system. The objectives of the thesis were to examine the land rights, by considering the theology of land in relation to land rights, institutions that Yahweh provides to guard land rights and a comparison of the land laws in Leviticus 25 and Kenyan land laws to find the similarities and the differences in the laws. The thesis seeks to answer the following questions, what is Israel’s theology of land in relation to land rights? What are the institutions provided in Leviticus 25 to guard land rights? And how do the Israel’s land laws compare with the Kenyan land laws? In answering the questions the objectives of the thesis will have been met. The thesis is an exegetical work using the grammatico-historical method and the social justice theory to examine Leviticus 25. Chapter one introduces the study with the background to the study, problem of the statement, objectives of the study, significance of the study, methodological considerations and the scope of the study. Chapter two deals with the literature relating to the land and land rights and chapter three looks at historical and cultural context of Leviticus with a special emphasis on the Holiness code of Leviticus 17-26. Chapter 4 deals with the analysis of Leviticus 25 using the social scientific method and social justice theory and chapter 5 deals with the recommendations and conclusion of the thesis.