Slaves in the New Testament : literary, social, and moral dimensions / [print]
J. Albert Harrill.
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, (c)2006.
- xiv, 322 pages ; 23 cm.
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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Bible.--New Testament
Slavery in the Bible. Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity.