Slaves in the New Testament (2006 Harrill), book

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Slaves in the New Testament (2006) is a book by James Albert Harrill.

Abstract

Editions

Published in Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2006.

Contents

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

External links

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