Oppressive-Exploitative Contracts: A Jewish Law Perspective

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger unlawfully.(Ezekiel 22:29)Ezekiel's lament emphasizes that oppression in general, and especially oppression of the needy and the distressed, is always an extr...

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Main Author: Lifshitz, Shahar (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2008
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 2008, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 425-453
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