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2 Another, rarer, formula with the same function was ina arki andurari. Since there must have been some concrete advantage for one of the contracting parties to make the contract 'after' and not 'before' the ludutu or anduraru, Gordon claimed that these terms were analogous to the Sabbatical and Jubilee, the term anduraru being related to and synonymous with drrwr of the Bible. Evidence from various documents has since shown, however, that anduraru merely refers to any concrete instance of release, both of persons and things (such as land), from existing obligations or slavery.
This conclusion throws light on the biblical legislator's method of work. He took a concept well known in the ancient Near East, an act whose justice and 1, 'Misharum Material', p. 245. 2. 1 The biblical legislator was well aware of the drastic theoretical consequences: hence the recognition in his legislation that all land-holding will be in the form of a lease no longer than fifty years. But he did not foresee all the practical consequences, in particular those pointed out by Pedersen and those attributed by Finkelstein to the edicts.
There is a fallow law: an entire cessation of all field work (verb Smt) is ordered to take place in every seventh year. This is said to be dictated by a regard for the poor and the beasts of the field. From the context it would appear that the fallow is intended to be universal (the following regulation concerns the Sabbath), but this is by no means a necessary conclusion. Secondly, there are release laws, concerning slaves only. 2-6 it is laid down that a Hebrew slave can be kept in bondage only for six years.