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All Things Reconciled: Essays on Restorative Justice, Religious Violence, and the Interpretation of Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

The modern restorative justice movement, perhaps one of the most important social movements of our time, was born in a Christian home to Christian parents, specifically to Christian peace workers striving to put their faith into action in the public arena. The first major book on the subject was written primarily for a church audience and drew deeply on biblical themes and values. But as...

But perhaps the strongest deterrent was Israel’s own experience of imprisonment in Egypt and the indelible mark it left on her national memory, and consequently on her social policy. Israel never forgot the bitterness of slavery, nor God’s action of setting her free from servitude. Israel therefore never used enslavement as form of criminal punishment.238 She did still practice a form of slavery, but never felt easy doing so, and covenant law built into the institution several limitations and humanitarian
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