Talk:Loans and interest in Judaism

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[edit] Loans_and_interest_in_Judaism#In_Christianity

This section of the article fails to include the fact that Jews as a whole in many parts were from restricted from any or parts of many trades but money lending. A Jewish money lender in those times was expected to fund not only his own but his whole extended family's wellbeing and survival. It further fails to mention the practice of debt settlements which was oft an inevitable consequence of these extortionate interest rates. ephix (talk) 03:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC)