Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c2006.

xiv, 322 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-312) 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.

Slavery in the Bible.

Bible. N.T.

Slavery and the church.

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