Cato the Elder was the primary Roman anti-Carthage ideologue. He has some statement like "Carthage must be destroyed."
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For example, Cato in his De Re Rustica said:. "And what do you think of usury?" - "What do you think of murder?"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Isn't it odd that the Phoenecian Canaanites, who are accorded as having an world class economic regime in the middle of empires (formal empire is denied to them), should have Jewish kin/devolutes who ban usury.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Most early religious systems in the ancient Near East, and the secular codes arising from them, did not forbid usury. These societies regarded inanimate matter as alive, like plants, animals and people, and capable of reproducing itself. Hence if you lent 'food money', or monetary tokens of any kind, it was legitimate to charge interest.[1] Food money in the shape of olives, dates, seeds or animals was lent out as early as c. 5000 BC, if not earlier. ... Among the Mesopotamians, Hittites, Phoenicians and Egyptians, interest was legal and often fixed by the state. But the Jews took a different view of the matter.[2]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
When we search the names of anti-usury ideologues, we get a plethora of greek philosophers, including the hellenizing Jew Philo.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Usury (in the original sense of any interest) was denounced by a number of spiritual leaders and philosophers of ancient times, including Plato, Aristotle, Cato, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, Aquinas, Muhammad, Moses, Philo and Gautama Buddha.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For example, Cato in his De Re Rustica said:. "And what do you think of usury?" - "What do you think of murder?"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Isn't it odd that the Phoenecian Canaanites, who are accorded as having an world class economic regime in the middle of empires (formal empire is denied to them), should have Jewish kin/devolutes who ban usury.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Most early religious systems in the ancient Near East, and the secular codes arising from them, did not forbid usury. These societies regarded inanimate matter as alive, like plants, animals and people, and capable of reproducing itself. Hence if you lent 'food money', or monetary tokens of any kind, it was legitimate to charge interest.[1] Food money in the shape of olives, dates, seeds or animals was lent out as early as c. 5000 BC, if not earlier. ... Among the Mesopotamians, Hittites, Phoenicians and Egyptians, interest was legal and often fixed by the state. But the Jews took a different view of the matter.[2]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
When we search the names of anti-usury ideologues, we get a plethora of greek philosophers, including the hellenizing Jew Philo.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Usury (in the original sense of any interest) was denounced by a number of spiritual leaders and philosophers of ancient times, including Plato, Aristotle, Cato, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, Aquinas, Muhammad, Moses, Philo and Gautama Buddha.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->