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Proclaim debt amnesty throughout all the land? A biblical solution to a present-day problem

  • Written by Eva von Dassow, Associate professor of Ancient History, University of Minnesota
Proclaim debt amnesty throughout all the land? A biblical solution to a present-day problemPart of a restoration edict of Ammisaduqa, one of the rulers of ancient Babylon.© The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA

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