Slaves in the New Testament
Subtitle: literary, social, and moral dimensions
By: J. Albert Harrill.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Bible. N.T.; Slavery in the Bible.; Slavery -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The slave self : Paul and the discursive "I"; title: The slave body : physiognomics and invective against Paul; title: The comedy of slavery in story and parable; title: Subordinate to another : elite slaves in the agricultural handbooks and the household codes; title: The vice of the slave trader; title: The domestic enemy : household slaves in early Christian apologies and accounts of martyrdom; title: 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.