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Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East

  • Paperback
  • 418 pages
  • Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.2 cm

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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 laws), and the biblical manumission laws themselves.

  • Title

    Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East

  • Author

    Gregory C. Chirichigno

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continnuum-3PL

  • Published

    November 2009

  • Weight

    582g

  • Page Count

    418

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567525819

  • ISBN-10

    0567525813

  • Eden Code

    2661017