ppt - Love, Ming & Mako

OT: Limits on Slavery
• Slavery in the Old Testament between Hebrews was a contract
of labor, not ceding ownership of one’s body. There was
absolutely no sex slavery; God’s vision for marriage was
retained in all cases and limited indentured servitude.
• Indentured servants under the Law of Moses held: kinship
• Indentured servants under the Law of Moses held: kinship
rights, marriage rights, personal legal rights relating to
physical protection and protection from breach of contract
and right to testify in court, freedom of movement, and
access to liberty by paying their debt (either through service,
or with money). They could accumulate savings, wealth, and
property of their own, something which was not permitted in
other slave systems because of the idea in those systems that
the master owns everything the slave produces, saves, or has.