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What You Should Know / January 24, 2012

Read Michael Hudson’s paper: “The Lost Tradition of Biblical Debt Cancellations”… [HT: helplesscase]

exiledonline.com -- THE once-glowing core body of law within the Judeo-Christian Bible has become all but ignored - indeed, rejected - by the colder temper of our times. This core provided for periodic restoration of economic order by rituals of social renewal based on freedom from debt-servitude and from the loss of one's access to self-support on the land. So central to Israelite moral values was this tradition that it framed the composition of both the Old and New Testaments.