Usury is often defined as taking or charging excessive interest on a loan. However, before the sixteenth century, it meant charging any kind of loan, whether for money...

The New Testament does not address the issue of “usury” in the same way that was evident in the examination of key Old Testament texts (see Leviticus and...

In my first blog, we examined usury in the book of Exodus, and in my second blog, we discussed usury from the context of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. But...

In my previous blog, I provided context on usury from the book of Exodus. To continue examining my theory that the Old Testament universally condemns usury on money...

The word “usury” is often defined in the modern world as something like this from the Oxford English Dictionary: “The practice of charging, taking, or contracting to receive...