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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...

In my discussion of the debt- and chattel-slave laws in Chapter 3, we saw that in the ancient Near East debt-slaves were not identified with foreign chattel-slaves. For example, according to LH §117 if a loan was foreclosed and dependents were sold or surrendered to a creditor (who may or may not be the original creditor) as debt-slaves, they were released after three years’ service. These laws demonstrate that citizens who became
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