The Relations Between the Laws of Babylonia And the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples
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But it is a poor compliment to a lawgiver of any age to suppose that sacred numbers influenced the nature of his laws. Doubtless the Jubilee release was economically an advance on sporadic amnesty, but to make a debtor's lot twice as hard and a money-lender's security double, especially as there is no reason to suppose that in Israel the temple was the poor man's bank, all for sake of seven is not a fair charge against Moses or any lawgiver unless it is absolutely certain. The change from three... to six is not easy to account for on scientific sociological grounds. But one of the Hebrew Scriptures does attempt to account for the change, and evidently regards it as a change to be accounted for. The Deuteronomic writer argues that the creditor ought not to deem it hard that he should release his debtor at the end of six years because he had so served a double term. We may note that as it now stands the text says ' double the hire of a hireling '. That is purely irrelevant. A slave's value was surely less to the holder, not more than that of a hireling, for his keep had to be subtracted, and his work was hardly likely to be so valuable as that of a freeman.
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