Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Biblia.com)

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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...

to redeem their relatives. Therefore, the regulations in vv. 39–43 called upon the covenant community as a whole—thus the use of the term אחיך in v. 39—to administer assistance to their fellow countrymen who had no other means of help. While I noted that it was not my intention to determine the exact date of the different biblical manumission laws, nevertheless this study does enable me to make a few contributions

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