Reply #55: What an anachronism!

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Jefferson Davis was a witness to what happened in Ancient Times! No wonder that guy is rolling around laughing: he can't believe the very thing you are writing!

The Bible is not documentary evidence on the evolution of slavery. However, if we were to take it that way, you should note that every one of your quotations would be excluded. Mention of slavery occurs before any of the codifications that occurred in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. So, if we take the Bible as the story of slavery (it is not) we would have to conclude that, indeed, the laws regarding slavery were reflections of existing property relations.