Part one: Introducing the problem. What is a sin?
A burden to be borne
A debt to be repaid
Part two: Making payment on one's debt. Redemption and the satisfaction of debts
Ancient creditors, bound laborers, and the sanctity of the land
Lengthening the term of debt
Loans and the Rabbinic sages
Early Christian thinking on the atonement
Part three: Balancing debts with virtue. Redeem your sins with alms
Salvation by works?
A treasury in heaven
Why God became man.
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Sin : a history by Gary A. Anderson. ISBN 9780300149890. Published by Yale University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
