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Biblical Perspective on Prison

Konkel, August
June 4, 2015

Source: (2003) Workshop paper given at PFI Convocation 2003 in Toronto Canada.

The word prison occurs many times in the scriptures. Yet what we mean by prison would
have been shocking to the peoples of ancient cultures. They could never have conceived
of what we do with prisons. (excerpt)

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