[taxcontrol]

While I understand your point and agree that the Jewish law of the time codified specific rules on how slaves and masters were to interact. I would submit that from the view point of a slave, there is not much difference between "Biblical" slavery and historical or even modern slavery.

To back my point, I would show to you that a slave could beaten so severally that the slave would die. And if that death occurred two or three days after the beating, then the master would not be held accountable for the death. That is an example of "Biblical" slavery.

[Neoliberalnot]

Yes, that is jewish law. I follow Christian law which has many more civil rules concerning conduct toward your fellow man. I think a person also needs to remember the difficulty God/Jesus have/had in communicating with humans. A similar communication gap exists between a human and an ant. Try getting your point across to the next ant you see on the sidewalk to appreciate the issue.

Life was as cheap then as it is today, what with 40-50 million killed in utero for profit in the U.S. alone.