The City Is Not London—How Babylon’s Temple Banks Built the Financial System
“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” — Matthew 6:12 When we look into antiquity, we tend to see primitive people. But ancient Babylon (c. 2000–539 BCE) and our world today are not that far apart. Consider the temple. It was a colossus: a divinely sanctioned corporation…
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