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In this erudite and sophisticated volume, Seth Schwartz argues that Jews' social relations in Greco-Roman antiquity were animated by a core tension between Hebrew biblical values and eastern Mediterranean exchange-based reciprocity. He claims that the Jewish biblical corpus (preeminently the Torah) prescribed a radically anti-Mediterranean vision for Israelite society. The Bible assured that the need would rarely arise when people would have to rely on the personal generosity of their neighbors. Therefore, charitable donations would never deteriorate into dependency-generating gifts. Instead, all Israelites should support their fellows, leaving behind some of their harvest, giving the poor a percentage of agricultural production, providing interestfree loans, periodically canceling debts, etc. These would all be done with the intention that not humans but God alone was honored. Reciprocity was thus conceptualized less in terms of relations between humans than between God and Israel.

Seth Schwartz. Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism