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 slave laws in the Pentateuch (in order to delimit the chattel-slave laws from the debt-slave laws), and the biblical manumission laws themselves.
So-so First I’m amazed that this book is so expensive. I really don’t know why. But as I’m working on a novel set in ancient Israel and I needed to know about regular slavery and debt-slavery I looked and looked for information on the subject. As you may know there are very, very few books on the topic, for this alone I will not give this book a low rating. It is good to see some treatment of this topic. There is a lot of information here.This book reads like a PhD thesis and may have…