The God of the Old Testament commanded and endorsed many practices that we find morally reprehensible today. High on the list was the institution of slavery, which features prominently in several sections of the Hebrew Bible. Fathers could sell their daughters into slavery, masters could beat their slaves, creditors could carry off children for failure to repay a debt, and foreigners could be kept for life, passed down as inherited property. How are we to make sense of all of this from our modern point of view?
Atheists and skeptics will often say that the God of the Old Testament was a moral monster for endorsing such atrocities. Christians will often respond that the slavery in the Hebrew Bible wasn’t as bad as we think, and was more like having a job or owning a credit card. While both sides of this debate are sincere in their positions, neither are ultimately correct. Our conclusions must derive from a thorough understanding of both the Old Testament and ancient Near Eastern contexts.
This book will:
1. Provide a detailed overview of slavery laws and practices in the Old Testament and the ancient Near East.
2. Examine the significant – and highly controversial – passages in the Hebrew Bible that deal with slavery, including laws about beating your slave, taking foreign chattel slaves, and what to do if a slave runs away from their master.
3. Answer the most challenging questions about slavery in the Old Testament, including, “Could you beat your slave within an inch of their life and get away with it?” “Were slaves just property that had no human rights?” and “Did the Old Testament really endorse slavery?”
Filip
2023-07-26
Interesting, the book gives a very deep and sorrow description of some contemporary loss to the Old Testament. And the way that Joshua analyses the loss of the mosaic law within the Hebrew old Testament in the Hebrew Bible, shows that the slave loss ancient Israel can’t be ignored, and you have to understand in what context a lot was given but for me, personally, this ultimately shows that the old Hebrew law wasn’t anything but human conception it shows that the Bible is weren’t that much different from contemporaries that the law was something that may be may have been changed or developed over time, so I guess this makes the case that the Bible wasn’t divine gift from God or at least not as everybody else seems to think.
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