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Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

by Gregory C. Chirichigno

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This original study concerns itself with the manumission laws of Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 15 and Leviticus 25. It begins with the social background to debt slavery and the socioeconomic factors encouraging the rise of debt slavery in Mesopotamia. After a comparative analysis of the Mesopotamian and biblical material Chirichigno examines the social background to debt slavery in Israel, the various slave laws in the Pentateuch (in order to delimit the chattel-slave laws from the debt-slave show more laws), and the biblical manumission laws themselves. show less

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Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS: 225.8306362 — Religion The Bible New Testament Special topics
LCC: HT915 .C542 — Social sciences Communities. Classes. Races Communities. Classes. Races Classes Slavery
BISAC: REL RELIGION Biblical Studies General

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Published: 1993
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS: 225.8306362
LCC: HT915 .C542

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