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Comment author: fubarobfusco 08 October 2014 04:05:48PM 5 points [-]

The ideal existed since antiquity, but — as today — wasn't consistently practiced.


"Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt." — Exodus 22:21

"The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God." — Leviticus 19:34

"And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the disputes between your people and judge fairly, whether the case is between two Israelites or between an Israelite and a foreigner residing among you.'" — Deuteronomy 1:16

(All quotations NIV.)

Comment author: bogus 11 October 2014 09:49:22PM *  1 point [-]

The classical world also had related norms of xenia and hospitium.