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Can I read Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Jsot Supplement Series) on EtoBox?
Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Jsot Supplement Series) by Gregory C., 1952- Chirichigno is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Jsot Supplement Series) about?
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 been. It has all the extensive notes and references you would expect to find in such a document. If you are not prepared for reading a heavily detailed text this isn't the text for you. But if you are researching it might prove very valuable. What I do not like about this book is that, writing from a Christian perspective and mostly referencing Christian works, the author's understanding of some of the Jewish laws are inaccurate. This makes the book rather annoying at times. There are also few, if any, references to ancient documents which are far better to rely on than the current Christian texts which he quotes so often. I think if he had stuck with more ancient texts and documents to base his findings o
Who reads Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Jsot Supplement Series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gregory C., 1952- Chirichigno
- Publisher
- Sheffield Academic Press
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780567590299
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-24