Debt-slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near EastThis 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. |
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Alalakh ana kaspim Ancient Israel Ancient Near East ancient Near Eastern Archaeology Assyrian Babylonian Laws biblical law biblical manumission laws biblischen Sklaven'-Gesetze Bottéro Canaan Canaanite Cardascia Cardellini chattel-slaves contracts corvées Covenant Code creditor cuneiform Cuneiform Law Dandamayev debt debt-slavery debtor Deut Deuteronomy Diakonoff discussion distraint Driver and Miles Early Israel Early Mesopotamia economic Eichler envisaged Eshnunna Exodus Fallow free citizens Furthermore Gelb Greenberg habiru Hammurabi Hebrew Hebrew debt-slave History of Israel idem Indenture at Nuzi institution Israelite Settlement JSOT Jubilee king Königliche Verfügungen Kraus labour land Lastly law in Exod Laws of Eshnunna legal collections Lemche Leviticus lineage loan Mendelsohn mēšarum edicts Mesopotamia motivation clause nevertheless nipûtum notes Nuzi Old Testament period pledge Press problème des habiru redeem redemption refers regulations Sabbatical scholars semi-free similar slave laws Slavery social stipulation Studies suggests Sumerian term Text Ugarit Urukagina vengeance verb Weinfeld Yaron