THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF UNDER-PRIVILEGED PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF UNDER-PRIVILEGED PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Author(s): Vasile BojorSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Islam studies, Comparative Studies of Religion, Religion and science , Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: city of refuge; social integration; orphans; widows; strangers; poor people.
Summary/Abstract: Social integration was and continues to be a vital need of all historical periods. Even from the Mosaic Period, God was extremely preoccupied with the way Jewish people would integrate socially under-privileged people (orphans, widows, poor people and strangers). Moreover, the Old Testament Law stipulated for a social integration of Levites and Priests. The current article aims to give an in-depth analysis of the way how all these under-privileged social categories ought to have been regarded and treated. In addition, within the same article it has been highlighted that there was a legal demand both in Antiquity (through the code of Hamurabi) and Semitic World to integrate the under-privileged people, this issue was often the responsibility of the acting king.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babeș - Bolyai Theologia Reformata Transylvanica
- Issue Year: 62/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 32-42
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
