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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20REFORMATA%20TRANSYLVANICA - Issue no. 2 / 2017  
         
  Article:   THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF UNDER-PRIVILEGED PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.

Authors:  VASILE BOJOR.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbtref.62.2.02

Published Online: 2017-12-20
Published Print: 2017-12-20

pp. 32-42

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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.

Keywords: city of refuge, social integration, orphans, widows, strangers, poor people.
 
         
     
         
         
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