Abstract:

In this essay we deal with the institution of slavery in the context of Jewish scriptures Tanakh and Talmud. Slavery was an indispensable institution in the ancient World. Tanakh and Talmud include different regulations for non-Jewish and Jewish slaves. Slaves are divided into two separate categories as Hebrew and non-Hebrew origin. Hebrew slaves are the ones who sold themselves for their debts or out of poverty. They can be freed by paying their debts back or after serving fors ix years. In addition, they are freed in the Jubilee year (year of general amnesty in every fifty year). NonHebrew slaves remain slaves until their deaths. Owner can punish their slaves but they cannot put them to death. If a slave is disabled as a result of beating, he or she becomes free. As opposed to Quran, Tanakh does not include any judgment regarding freeing a slave. However, non-Hebrew and Jewish slaves, legal, criminal, manumission and provisions relating to human status, although in favor of the Hebrew slaves, he is very good situation of slaves in the world of Greek and Roman eras

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