The Torah’s Asylum Commandment Not To Return A Runaway Slave – OpEd

Professor Yitzhak Y. Melamed of Johns Hopkins University points out that the Commandment Not to Return a Runaway Slave to his or her Master is a unique law in its ancient Near Eastern context. Commentators such as ibn Ezra, and Maimonides, living in a Medieval world of normative slavery, debated whether the asylum commandment was...