Katherine Marshall Blogs: Bankers and Prophets: Reflecting on the Jubilee Campaign
Featuring: Katherine Marshall
October 5, 2010
In Biblical Israel, as in many agrarian societies, a family or community hit by a catastrophe like bad rains or illness would borrow to make it through, then find themselves forced to sell land because they could not repay the loans; many ended as de facto slaves with nothing to live on but their labor...
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