Psalm 137:9

[Angrboda]

So again not all slaves are human chattle. Slave is a much broader word that has lost most all of it's meaning in the modern vanicular. Today it only means a beaten broken black man picking cotton in a white man's field. While the word use to mean anything from chattle slavery to contract employment meaning instead of money I work for you, you give me land to work house to live in food for me and my family and protection from evil people and I give you work in that field and a precentage of everything it produces. Or slavery in the case of Joseph meant everything from chattle slavery to being the second in command of all of egypt.

That is one thing you douche bags forget about the word slavery as the bible uses it. it was the rewards the slaves were entitled to, because again you lemmings have been programed to only think black man in a cotton field being beaten by a white man. While that is apart of History, one can not deny that there is no soceity today outside of mud huts that was not built and currently maintained on the backs of slaves. (OT version not yours)

Your attempts to minimize and explain away the problem of slavery in the ancient near east are transparent and immoral. It's nothing more than you drinking your own koolaid. Yes, slavery covered a range of possibilities, yet it was still an evil in and of itself, visited by the same excesses which the African slave trade visited upon us. You do everything but say that slavery was a zippity doo-dah pleasant way to live one's life. It wasn't. Slaves lived second class lives and people resorted to such measures out of desperation or worse. Your attempts to muddy the waters with bullshit red herrings is disgusting.

2. Treatment

While, legally, the slave was a mere chattle, classed with movable property, both law and society were forced to take into consideration the constantly self-asserting humanity of the slave. We thus have the highly contradictory situation in which on the one hand, the slave was considered as possessing the qualities of a human being while on the other hand, he was recognized as being void of the same and regarded as a mere "thing." The slave's status as a chattle, deprived of any human rights, was clearly and unmistakably emphasized in his relation to a third party. If injured, maimed, or killed by a third party, his owner was compensated for the loss, not the slave. The Biblical legislation mentions only the case of a slave who was killed by a goring ox and provides that the owner shall be compensated for his loss (Ex. 21:32).

In the relation between the slave and his master almost everything depended upon the character of the latter. The slave's fate was in fact in his master's hand. Beatings and maltreatment of slaves seem to have been so common that the great reformer Gudea, ensi of Lagash, prided himself in the fact that during his reign a slave who was guilty of misconduct was not hit on his head by his master, and that a maid who had done a great wrong was not struck on her face by her mistress. The Biblical legislation does not prohibit the maltreatment of a Hebrew slave by his master "for he is his money." It is only when the slave dies immediately (within three days) as a result of the beating that the master becomes liable to punishment (Ex. 21:20-21). In Ancient Babylonia a runaway slave was put in chains and had the words "A runaway, seize!" incised upon his face. The Hammurabi Code decrees the death penalty for those who entice a slave to flee from his master and also for those who harbor a fugitive slave. Furthermore, a reward of two shekels is promised to anyone who captures a fugitive slave and brings him back to his master.

"Slavery In The Ancient Near East" I. Mendelsohn.

Your attempt to plaster over the reality of slavery in the ancient world is nothing but bullshit Christian propaganda aiming to whitewash history. You are full of crap and an immoral son of a bitch for propagating these lies. And, as noted, deprived of your smoke screen, slavery, even in the ancient Hebrew world, was an evil that was condoned by your so-called "holy" book. The meaning of "holy" is that it is set apart. But the slavery in the ancient near east is only set apart in its ordinariness as a morally repugnant practice.

You can post all the bullshit propaganda and red herrings you like, it won't change the truth. Your "holy" book isn't holy, nor the product of divine influence. You've simply raised an ancient political and moral treatise to the status of infallible guide. That's your failing. You worship a book that is not of any god as if it were. You've abdicated your responsibility as a moral being to assert your own truths as your own, instead abdicating that responsibility to a bunch of decrepit cookie cutter bullshit. You worship the bible. God, if he exists, gets lost in your insipid adoration of that book.