Interchapter Query - 8. From the Temple Corporation to the Family Oikos (Household)
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Interchapter Query
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1. This is of course hardly surprising in view of the fact that
, as the preceding Chapter 8 has described, temples were civilization’s first corporate institutions, at least in the Bronze Age Near East. But these public corporate entities were only part of the interface between the deities and economic life.This mention was later omitted from Chapter 10’s body and moved into a query, at this link. If its queries have been resolved and it has been moved to the Chapter 10 body, let us know.
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