Harrill, James Albert,  1963- <br/><br/>
Slaves in the New Testament :  literary, social, and moral dimensions / 
J. Albert Harrill. 
 - Minneapolis :  Fortress Press,  c2006. 
 - xiv, 322 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0800637720 (hardcover : alk. paper) 080063781X (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bible.--New Testament.<br/>Slavery in the Bible.<br/>Slavery and the church.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>225.8306362  / HAR