... And forgive them their debts : lending, foreclosure and redemption from Bronze Age finance to the jubilee year / by Michael Hudson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-311) and index.

Table of Contents:
Part I : OVERVIEW :
-- A Babylonian Perspective on Liberty and Economic Order;
-- Jesus's First Sermon and the Tradition of Debt Amnesty;
-- Credit, Debt and Money : Their Social and Private Contexts;
Part II : SOCIAL ORIGINS OF DEBT :
-- The Anthropology of Debt, from Gift Exchange to Wergild Fines;
-- Creditors as Predators : The Anthropology of Usury;
-- Origins of Commercial Interest in Sumer's Palaces and Temples ;
-- Rural Usury as a Lever to Privatize Land and Impose Bondage;
Part III : THE BRONZE AGE INVENTS USURY, BUT COUNTERS ITS ADVERSE EFFECTS :
-- War, Debt and amar-gi in Sumer : 2400 BC ;
-- Urukagina proclaims amar-gi : 2350 BC ;
-- Sargon's Akkadian Empire and its Collapse : 2300-2100 BC ;
-- Lagash Revives under Gudea and his Debt Cancellation : 2130 BC ;
-- Trade, Enterprise and Debt in Ur III : 2111-2004 BC ;
-- Isin Rulers replace Ur III and proclaim níg-si-sá: 2017-1861 BC ;
-- Diffusion of Trade via Assyrian Merchants : 1900-1825 BC ;
-- Privatizing Mesopotamia's Intermediate Period : 2000-1600 BC ;
-- Hammurabi's Laws and mīšarum Edicts : 1792-1750 BC ;
-- Freeing the Land and its Cultivators from Predatory Creditors;
-- Samsuiluna's and Ammisaduqa's mīšarum Edicts : 1749 and 1646 BC ;
-- Social Cosmology of Babylonia's Debt Cancellations ;
-- Usury and Privatization in the Periphery : 1600-1200 BC ;
-- From the Dawn of the Iron Age to the Rosetta Stone : 1200-196 BC ;
Part IV : THE BIBLICAL LEGACY :
-- Judges, Kings and Usury : 8th and 7th Centuries BC ;
-- Biblical Prophets Call for Debt Cancellation ;
-- The Babylonian Impact on Judaic Debt Laws ;
-- From Religious Covenant to Hillel ;
-- Christianity Spiritualizes the Jubilee Year as the Day of Judgment ;
-- The Byzantine Echo ;
-- The Zenith and Decline of Byzantium : 945-1204 ;
-- Conclusion ;
Index;
Bibliography.