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Slaves in the New Testament : literary, social, and moral dimensions / J. Albert Harrill.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2006.Description: xiv, 322 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0800637720 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 080063781X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 225.8306362 HAR
Contents:
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.
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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.

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