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Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and charity? Slaves were considered the sexual property of their owners: what was the status within the Church of enslaved women and young male slaves who were their owners' sexual playthings? Is there any reason to believe that Christians shied away from the use of corporal punishments so common among ancient slave owners? Jennifer A. Glancy brings a multilayered approach to these and many other issues, offering a comprehensive re-examination of the evidence pertaining to slavery in early Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Glancy situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting. She argues that scholars have consistently underestimated the pervasive impact of slavery on the institutional structures, ideologies, and practices of the early churches and of individual Christians. The churches, she shows, grew to maturity with the assumption that slaveholding was the norm, and welcomed both slaves and slaveholders as members. Glancy draws attention to the importance of the body in the thought and practice of ancient slavery. To be a slave was to be a body subject to coercion and violation, with no rights to corporeal integrity or privacy. Even early Christians who held that true slavery was spiritual in nature relied, ultimately, on bodily metaphors to express this. Slavery, Glancy demonstrates, was an essential feature of both the physical and metaphysical worlds of early Christianity. The first book devoted to the early Christian ideology and practice of slavery, this work sheds new light on the world of the ancient Mediterranean and on the development of the early Church.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Jennifer A. Glancy |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2002-03-14 |
File |
: 224 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780190285746 |
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"Jennifer A. Glancy brings a multilayered approach to these and many other issues, offering a comprehensive reexamination of the evidence pertaining to slavery in early Christianity."--Jacket.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Jennifer A. Glancy |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Release |
: 2002 |
File |
: 218 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195136098 |
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Slaves were ubiquitous in the first- and second-century CE Roman Empire, and early Christian texts reflect this fact. This book argues that enslaved persons engaged in leadership roles in civic and religious activities. Such roles created tension within religious groups, including second-century communities connected with Paul's legacy. -
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Katherine Ann Shaner |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2018 |
File |
: 241 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780190275068 |
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The Slave Metaphor and Gendered Enslavement in Early Christian Discourse adds new knowledge to the ongoing discussion of slavery in early Christian discourse. Kartzow argues that the complex tension between metaphor and social reality in early Christian discourse is undertheorized. A metaphor can be so much more than an innocent thought figure; it involves bodies, relationships, life stories, and memory in complex ways. The slavery metaphor is troubling since it makes theology of a social institution that is profoundly troubling. This study rethinks the potential meaning of the slavery metaphor in early Christian discourse by use of a variety of texts, read with a whole set of theoretical tools taken from metaphor theory and intersectional gender studies, in particular. It also takes seriously the contemporary context of modern slavery, where slavery has re-appeared as a term to name trafficking, gendered violence, and inhuman power systems.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Marianne Bjelland Kartzow |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2018-04-17 |
File |
: 281 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781351241595 |
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New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Everett Ferguson |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Release |
: 2003 |
File |
: 676 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802822215 |
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Typical studies of marriage and family in the early Christian period focus on very limited evidence found in Scripture. This interdisciplinary book offers a broader, richer picture of the first Christian families by drawing together research by experts ranging from archaeologists to ancient historians. By exploring the nature of households in the ancient Greco-Roman world, the contributors assemble a new understanding of ancient Christian families that is both compelling and instructive. Divided into six parts, the book covers key aspects of ancient family life, from meals and child-rearing to women's roles and the lives of slaves. Three concluding chapters explore the implications of all this information for theological education today. Contributors: David L. Balch Suzanne Dixon J. Albert Harrill Ross S. Kraemer Christian Laes Peter Lampe Amy-Jill Levine Margaret Y. MacDonald Dale Martin Eric M. Meyers Margaret M. Mitchell Carolyn Osiek Beryl Rawson Richard Saller Timothy F. Sedgwick Monika Trumper Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
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Genre |
: Family & Relationships |
Author |
: David L. Balch |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Release |
: 2003 |
File |
: 444 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 080283986X |
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: James Albert Harrill |
Publisher |
: J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck) |
Release |
: 1995 |
File |
: 282 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015034518806 |
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Genre |
: Church history |
Author |
: Leighton Pullan |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1898 |
File |
: 324 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UVA:X001741623 |
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Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? Christian Slavery shows how debates about slavery transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race in the early modern Atlantic world.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Katharine Gerbner |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Release |
: 2018-04-02 |
File |
: 296 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780812250015 |
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Genre |
: Christian sociology |
Author |
: Charles Schmidt |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1889 |
File |
: 522 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:HN3QZT |