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This original study concerns itself with the manumission laws of Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 15 and Leviticus 25. It begins with the social background to debt slavery and the socioeconomic factors encouraging the rise of debt slavery in Mesopotamia. After a comparative analysis of the Mesopotamian and biblical material Chirichigno examines the social background to debt slavery in Israel, the various slave laws in the Pentateuch (in order to delimit the chattel-slave laws from the debt-slave laws), and the biblical manumission laws themselves.

Slavery --- Slavery in the Bible. --- Debt --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Indebtedness --- Finance --- Law and legislation --- Jews --- History. --- 326 <33> --- Slavery (Jewish law) --- -Middle Eastern literature --- -Slavery in the Bible --- Jewish law --- Near Eastern literature --- 326 <33> Slavernij--(algemeen)--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Slavernij--(algemeen)--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- History --- Relation to the Old Testament --- 221.08*3 --- Slavery in the Bible --- Vows in the Bible --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Enslaved persons