ユダヤ教徒にとって唯一の許された職業が、キリスト教徒から忌み嫌われていた利子を取り扱う職業＝高利貸し（質屋）や金槐の保管人、両替商（貿易決済業）などでした。
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ユダヤ教徒にとって唯一の許された職業が、キリスト教徒から忌み嫌われていた利子を取り扱う職業＝高利貸し（質屋）や金槐の保管人、両替商（貿易決済業）などでした。
We have all heard it a thousand times. Christianity is about love, we are told, but Judaism is about … something else, like law, or justice, or whatever.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
In Islam, interest on monetary debt (riba, الربا) is unlawful (haram, حرام) on ethical grounds,
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
In Islam, interest on monetary debt (riba, الربا) is unlawful (haram, حرام) on ethical grounds,
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
If Jesus had said, out on the street, that the time had come when the god-given taboos, which marked out the Jews from their pagan neighbours, were to be made redundant, since in the kingdom which was dawning they would simply not be needed, he might well have started a riot.92 People had died, in living folk memory, for refusing to eat pork.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
In both Catholic and Protestant circles, interest came to represent the lender’s stake in the success and profit of the borrower, while usury was associated with the extortion of the needy.