I began a brief comment on this subject and remixed it a few days later. Essentially I was commenting on the fact that certain aspects of slavery in Deuteronomy were surprisingly at odds with the surrounding laws of other Ancient Near Eastern societies. The socio-economic reality of “slavery” is remarkably liberated at least [...]
Old Testament Slave Laws part Deux
Okay I was a little bit misleading in that last post. The verses on slaves were not “Bible” verses – I just said that I was interested in ancient slavery laws of the Ancient Near East. That is what they are, just not from the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy – they were [...]
Old Testament Slave Laws
In my recent studies of the book of Deuteronomy I’ve been thinking about ancient laws on slavery (circa 2000 BCE). Slavery was an economic reality in the Ancient Near East, a means of getting oneself and one’s family out of debt by being bonded to a “master”or a slave as a spoil of war [...]
Moses and the Quizzing Generation
“When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your children, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.”
Deuteronomy [...]
