Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral DimensionsIn this exciting new analysis of slaves and slavery in the New Testament, Harrill breaks new ground with his extensive use of Greco-Roman evidence, discussion of hermeneutics, and treatment of the use of the New Testament in antebellum U.S. slavery debates. He examines in detail Philemon, 1 Corinthians, Romans, Luke-Acts, and the household codes. |
Contents
Slave Dealers and Sexual Immorality | 129 |
Slave Dealers and Violation of Holiness | 133 |
Slave Dealers and Violation of Jewish Law | 136 |
10 and the Vice of Slave Dealers | 139 |
The Domestic Enemy | 145 |
A Case of Mastercide | 147 |
Slave Autopsy in Early Christian Apology | 153 |
The Slave Body as Spectacle in Early Christian Martyrdom | 157 |
CynicSocratic Apologia and Paul at War | 53 |
Conclusion | 56 |
The Comedy of Slavery in Story and Parable | 59 |
18 | 66 |
Conclusion | 83 |
Subordinate to Another | 85 |
Colossians and Ephesians the Epistle of Barnabas the Didache and the Doctrina Apostolorum | 87 |
The Ancient Handbook Tradition | 97 |
Justice Accountability and Piety | 103 |
Early Christian Household Codes as Handbooks | 113 |
Conclusion | 116 |
The Vice of the Slave Trader | 119 |
Lawlessness of Slave Dealers in Acquiring Merchandise | 124 |
Untrustworthiness of Slave Dealers in Selling Merchandise | 125 |
Conclusion | 162 |
The Use of the New Testament in the American Slave Controversy | 165 |
AntislaveryAbolitionist Theology and Exegesis | 166 |
The Voices of African Americans | 177 |
Proslavery Theology and Exegesis | 180 |
Conclusion | 191 |
Epilogue | 193 |
Abbriviation | 197 |
Notes | 201 |
Works Cited | 271 |
Index of Names and Subjects | 313 |
Index of Biblical and Other Ancient Sources | 316 |
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Popular passages
Page 194 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 212 - James C. Scott. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).
Page 174 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners. for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.
Page 19 - For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
Page 28 - We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
Page 178 - if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.
Page 14 - Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Page 114 - As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him : rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Page 25 - Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.