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"Credit is the oxygen of every society. In many cases we wonder why the rabbis prohibit certain business credit transactions considering them usury. The writer uses literary and epigraphic sources to decipher the rabbinic approach. This book shows how rabbinic legislation innovatively expand the Torah prohibition of usury in loans to all fields of credit. It is a pioneering inquiry regarding rabbinic literature compiled under Roman and Sasanid rule, helping to fill the void in research concerning credit. It also distinguishes various kinds of credit differentiating credit of money for money, or products, exposing the ramifications of the rabbinic legislation"--

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History of the law --- 296*52 --- Credit (Jewish law) --- Interest (Jewish law) --- droit --- interet --- credits --- israel --- Usury (Jewish law) --- Usury laws (Jewish law) --- Ribit --- Jewish law --- Joodse ethiek: Halacha; Minhag (gewoonten); Tora --- recht --- interest --- kredieten --- 296*52 Joodse ethiek: Halacha; Minhag (gewoonten); Tora

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"What does the Bible say about money? This volume presents the researches of 18 international biblical scholars at Angarskolen's Norwegian Summer Academy for Biblical Studies. ... This unusual volume is a useful resource for researchers, but also a coursebook to be used in the classroom and a comprehensive introduction to biblical economic ethics in general."

Money --- Wealth --- Poverty --- Interest (Jewish law) --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Usury (Jewish law) --- Usury laws (Jewish law) --- Ribit --- Jewish law --- Destitution --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Affluence --- Distribution of wealth --- Fortunes --- Riches --- Business --- Economics --- Finance --- Capital --- Property --- Well-being --- Currency --- Monetary question --- Money, Primitive --- Specie --- Standard of value --- Exchange --- Value --- Banks and banking --- Coinage --- Currency question --- Gold --- Silver --- Silver question --- Biblical teaching --- Emancipation