摘要
《利未记》第25章记载了以色列历史上的一项重要社会制度——禧年,该制度大致包含了休耕、免债、赎地、释奴等相关内容,体现了生态环保、人权尊严、自由公平、财富均衡、神人关系等理念。其中,赎回奴仆条例难免会让一些读者感到困惑,为何按照耶和华律法建构的古代以色列社会也会有奴隶的存在?此外,《摩西五经》中除了《利未记》,《出埃及记》和《申命记》也记载了有关奴仆的条例,这些条例单从字面上看彼此之间似乎有些不同甚至矛盾,我们该如何解析其中的差异?禧年制度中的赎回奴仆条例的意义又是什么?这些问题就是本文要探讨解析的内容。
Chapter 25 of Leviticus records an important social system in Israel’s history,the Jubilee Year,which roughly includes fallow farming,debt forgiveness,redemption,and slavery,etc.,embodying the concepts of ecological environmental protection,human rights and dignity,freedom and fairness,wealth balance,and God-man relations.Among them,the ordinance of redemption of slave may cause some readers to wonder why slaves existed in the ancient Israelite society constructed according to Jehovah’s Law.In addition,in addition to the Book of Leviticus in the Pentateuch,the Exodus and Deuteronomy also record the rules of slavery,and these rules seem to be somewhat different or even contradictory to each other literally.This article attempts to analyze these issues of the redemption of slaves in the Jubilee system in Leviticus.
出处
《基督宗教研究》
2022年第2期224-235,共12页
Study of Christianity
关键词
《利未记》
禧年制度
赎回奴仆
Leviticus
Jubilee system
redemption of slaves
作者简介
李伟斌,金陵协和神学院图书馆馆员。
