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I must con­fess that the truth behind the first myth was a sur­prise to me, and I con­sid­er myself very well informed on these issues. 

5 Myths about Jubilee

Found in Leviti­cus 25, the bib­li­cal prac­tice of Jubilee is becom­ing ever more promi­nent in dis­cus­sions about jus­tice, pover­ty, and debt relief. Many evan­gel­i­cal authors men­tion Jubilee as a bib­li­cal exam­ple of debt for­give­ness and redis­tri­b­u­tion of land. It has also gained pop­u­lar atten­tion in the news media.

Jubilee has been offered by sev­er­al sources as a solu­tion to our cur­rent eco­nom­ic cri­sis. At Forbes, Erik Kain asked, “Could a debt jubile…