Slaves in the New Testament :
Harrill, James Albert, 1963-
Slaves in the New Testament : literary, social, and moral dimensions / J. Albert Harrill. - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2006. - xiv, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-312) and indexes.
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.
0800637720 (hardcover : alk. paper) 080063781X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005024272
Bible.--New Testament.
Slavery in the Bible.
Slavery and the church.
HT915 / .H32 2006
225.8/306362
Slaves in the New Testament : literary, social, and moral dimensions / J. Albert Harrill. - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2006. - xiv, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-312) and indexes.
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.
0800637720 (hardcover : alk. paper) 080063781X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005024272
Bible.--New Testament.
Slavery in the Bible.
Slavery and the church.
HT915 / .H32 2006
225.8/306362