Gender & Sexuality
Owning Foreign Slaves as Heritable Property
“Leviticus 25:44-46 explicitly permits the permanent ownership of foreign slaves as heritable property — how have interpreters dealt with a text that appears to sanction ethnically differentiated chattel slavery?”
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