Slaves in the New Testament : literary, social, and moral dimensions.

HARRILL, James Albert, 1963-

Slaves in the New Testament : literary, social, and moral dimensions. J. Albert Harrill. - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2006. - xiv, 322 p, index 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-312) and indexes.

Introduction : imagining slaves -- The slave self : Paul and the discursive "I" -- The slave body : physiognomics and invective against Paul -- The comedy of slavery in story and parable -- Subordinate to another : elite slaves in the agricultural handbooks and the household codes -- The vice of the slave trader -- The domestic enemy : household slaves in early Christian apologies and accounts of martyrdom -- The use of the New Testament in the American slave controversy : a case history in the hermeneutical tension between biblical criticism and Christian moral debate.

0800637720 (hardcover : alk. paper) 080063781X (pbk. : alk. paper)

2005024272


Bible.--N.T.


Slavery in the Bible.
Slavery and the church.

HT915 / .H32 2006

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