Song of Release
CTH 789
A city's elders debate whether to release debt-slaves as a god demands, and the poem's parallel Hurrian and Hittite columns argue that a community which will not forgive bondage invites its own destruction.
CTH 789
A city's elders debate whether to release debt-slaves as a god demands, and the poem's parallel Hurrian and Hittite columns argue that a community which will not forgive bondage invites its own destruction.
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