Land Ownership in Post-exilic Yehud: Affinities for Discerning Ideological Meta-Narratives of Resource Control in the Niger-Delta in Nigeria

The conception of land ownership appears to be one among the factors that created a lot of tension between the returnees and the am ha’arets in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah during the early post-exilic period. In this respect, a curious reader may want to examine some of the factors that appeared to have contributed to the tension on land ownership in the two books during the period. Notably, how the tension was resolved worth considering. Thou, the postexilic situation is separated by time, space and material culture from the ongoing agitations for resource control in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, the author, shares the conviction that certain theological, political and or economic affinities could be drawn from the postexilic situation in order to discern certain ideological meta-narratives that have governed the current agitations for resource control in the Niger-Deltal region in Nigeria.