TY - BOOK AU - Harrill,James Albert TI - Slaves in the New Testament: literary, social, and moral dimensions SN - 0800637720 AV - HT 915.H32 2006 HT 915.H32 2006 U1 - 225.8/306362 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Minneapolis PB - Fortress Press KW - Bible KW - N.T KW - Slavery and the Church KW - Slavery in the Bible N1 - 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 ER -