To be clear, slavery was bad. It was bad in 'Biblical times' (I really hate that phrase - it implies that Biblical events occurred in some mystical legendary time, rather than mostly happening within the historical period), it was bad in antiquity, it was always bad.https://twitter.com/DavidLarter/status/1389316195359281169 …
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And to be clear, written history goes *further* back in the Levant than in Greece or Rome. Like, WAY further back. We have a decent sense of the political situation in the Levant from the early 2000s BC onward, centuries *before* Exodus would have been set.
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Assyrian court records from the period attest to the existence of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and detail Assyrian military activity there. Like, check it out, the Assyrians made a stele where they record besieging Jerusalem in 701:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennacherib%27s_Annals …
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And of course the New Testament is set during the period of the Roman Empire. So don't say 'Biblical times,' say 'Iron Age Levant' if you mean the most of the Old Testament, say 'Hellenistic Period' if you mean Maccabees and 'Roman period' if you mean the New Testament.
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Also slavery is bad, will be bad, and has always been bad. It was not, at any point, good. It was bad. Yes, even in the Iron Age Levant. Bad. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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One fact about the ancient world that blew my mind (trying to find the source) but green flags with crescent moons and stars would have been visible in Mesopotamia 1000s of yrs before Muhammad, not to mention Jesus
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