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Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book deals with the concept of justice and righteousness in ancient Israelite literature in comparison with identical concepts in ancient Near East. Various aspects of this concept are taken into consideration: philological, historical, sociological and theological. Moshe Weinfeld surveys social reforms in the ancient Near East from the third millennium BCE to the Hellenistic period. The...

its establishment with חסד, “kindness”, or חסד and אמת, “kindness and truth (Isa. 16:5; Prov. 20:28). Similarly, we find חסד in conjunction with משפט and צדקה or in parallelism with them; for example: “He loves צדקה and משפט, the חסד of the YHWH fills the earth” (Ps. 33:5) “צדק and משפט are the foundation of your throne, חטד and אמת go before you” (Ps. 89:15); “He performs חסד, משפט and צדקה in the land” (Jer. 9:23); “… to do משפט and love תסד” (Mic. 6:8; cf. Hos. 12:7; Ps. 101:1); “And I shall betroth
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