Abstract “Without money you shall be redeemed” (Is 52:3). Redemption in the Old Testament between theological metaphor and hybrid legal language Most Old Testament texts dealing with redemption and ransom use legal language, even when God is the redeemer, although in this

Abstract Pidion Haben, the redemption of the firstborn. Theological-political interpretations of a Mitzvah The paper deals with the mitzwà issued by Shemot/Exodus 13: 13, which imposes the consecration and the ransom of every, human and animal, first-born. This commandment, called pid