Slavery in text and interpretation /guest editors, Allen Dwight Callahan, Richard A. Horsley, and Abraham Smith ; board editor, David Jobling.
Description
Pt. 1. "Filled with bitterness". The slave system of classical antiquity and their reluctant recognition by modern scholars / Richard A. Horsley -- Servants of God(s) and servants of kings in Israel and the ancient near east / Dexter E. Callender, Jr. -- 'Ebd/doulos: Terms and social status in the meeting of Hebrew Biblical and Hellenistic Roman culture / Benjamin G. Wright, III -- The depiction of slavert in the ancient novel / Lawrence M. Wills -- Slave resistance in classical antiquity / Allen Dwight Callahan and Richard A. Horsley -- Paul and slavery: a critical alternative to recent readings / Richard A. Horsley --^^pt. 2. "The darkest days of the world". "Somebody done hoodoo'd the hoodoo man": Language, power, resistance, and the effective history of Pauline texts in American slavery / Clarice J. Martin -- "Brother Saul": an amvivalent witness to freedom / Allen Dwight Callahan -- Putting "Paul" back together again / William Wells Brown's Clotel and black abolitionist approaches to Paul / Abraham Smith -- Paul, slavery and freedom: personal and socio-historical reflections / Orlando Patterson --^^Responses. Reading our heritage : a response / Antoinette Clark Wire -- Paul and slavery : a response / Stanley K. Stowers.
iv, 311 pages ;24 cm.
Book Details
Place Published
City
Atlanta, GA
Publication Subjects
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Slavery in the Bible.
Slavery--Biblical teaching.
Slavery--History.
Call No.
HT915.S55 1998
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier
Media type: unmediatednrdamedia
Date: [1998]
Publication Info: {copy}1998