Slaves in the New Testament :literary, social, and moral dimensions /J. Albert Harrill.
Description
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.
xiv, 322 p. ;23 cm.
Book Details
Author
Harrill, James Albert
Place Published
City
Minneapolis
Date Published
2006
Publication Subjects
Bible.--New Testament
Slavery in the Bible.
Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity.