The marginal people referred to in this book are individuals or groups who wereuprootedeitherphysicallyorideologicallyfromtheirsociety . Sinceno society absorbed them they fell through the interstices of social structure . They did not have any position assigned by law , custom or convention . They slipped through the network of social classification because they lacked a defined identity and conducted an structural-inter way of life . This book delineates their social situation integrally and coherently , stressing the characteristics and exclusiveness of each one of them . In the absence of concrete and direct evidence for social conditions of those times in the Bible as well as in Mesopotamian sources , we applied the four following methods of research : a . Searching for technical legal terms stripped of their regular semantic meaning , in order to explore their judicial-socio meaning . b . Focusing on the historical reality of Israelite society conceived here as an integral part o...
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