ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
How does human work structure the economy and society? Temples in the Southern Levant during the Persian Empire (c. 539–331 BCE) provide a vital, underutilized historical vista for such questions. Persian involvement with labor taxation, forced labor, and temple institutions makes temples cynosures for key ancient economic, social, and cultural practices of work. Focusing on taxation and labor, WORK-IT drags analysis from formal to informal taxation (from official to social structures) and from slavery to forced labor (from definition to wider social phenomena), seeking deeper social interrelations for both economic topics. Both interventions furnish new fruitful perspectives on the…
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