Biblical Slavery and its context || Interview with Dr. Josh Bowen

In this episode we get Dr. Josh Bowen of  @DigitalHammurabi  to talk about slavery in the Bible, and its context in the Ancient Near East. What do Christians often say about it? How did slavery in ancient Israel compare to the slavery practiced by its neighbors? Was it really a mostly kind sort of social institution, or was it something more akin to slavery in the American South?

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Timestamps

0:00 - Intro
4:50 - Slavery in the Ancient Near East (ANE)
16:30 - Tangent on genocide
18:20 - Slavery in ancient Israel
26:10 - Slaves being released every 7 years
28:25 - Wasn't kidnapping outlawed!?
30:00 - Was God meeting humans where they were?
33:30 - Israelites becoming chattel
38:25 - Was a slave then the same as a slave now?
45:40 - Slavery in the American South vs ANE
51:50 - How was slavery actually practiced in the ANE
57:50 - Limitations on violence
1:01:30 - Summary
1:04:30 - How to engage with fundamentalists
1:17:20 - Where to find more
1:20:00 - Outro