TY - BOOK AU - Harrill, James Albert, TI - Slaves in the New Testament: literary, social, and moral dimensions SN - 0800637720 (hardcover : alk. paper) U1 - 225.8306362 PY - 2006/// CY - Minneapolis PB - Fortress Press KW - Bible KW - New Testament KW - Slavery in the Bible KW - Slavery and the church N1 - 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 ER -