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Dec 8, 2021 · A handful of New Testament scholars are charting a new course, challenging the rest of us to adopt the new historical consensus and to see biblical enslavement for what it was. Allowing these new critical works to lay the foundation for our understanding of slavery as it appears in the Synoptic Gospels will move us away from tired clichés and toward a more accurate picture of the worlds in ...
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Feb 13, 2023 · “Some legacies of enslavement in the New Testament [have worked] to justify enslavement, racism, and colonialism through the identification of enslaved persons as outsiders, idolaters, and heathens—[all terms that have] been racialized in white supremacy; deployed in colonialism with regard to non-Christians and non-Westerners; and used to justify Christian enslavers as righteous and ...
Oct 11, 2024 · Building on the idea that all human beings—including slaves (see Job 31:14-15)—share in the imago Dei (see Gen 1:27), the New Testament challenges slave owners to treat those under their authority “no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother” (Phil 16; see also Col 4:1). In this radical new vision, civilization is reshaped from the inside out.
Feb 2, 2007 · J. Albert Harrill offers an hermeneutical alternative to uncritical readings and outright rejection of New Testament (NT) and other ancient Christian texts that contain slavery imagery. Harrill foregrounds the significance of the wider shared historical and cultural literary context of the Greco-Roman empire as the hermeneutical framework for reading images of slavery in ancient Christian texts.
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Mar 12, 2024 · The first written use of the Curse of Ham to justify slavery appeared in the 15th century, when Gomes Eanes de Zurara, a Portuguese historian, wrote that the enchained Africans he’d seen were in ...
Feb 23, 2021 · First, the Old and New Testaments do forbid practices that stood at the heart of the institution of slavery in its ancient and modern forms. Aside from the general prohibitions on wanton violence by Christians, the most obvious stricture was that against the practice of “manstealing,” which is condemned in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and 1 Timothy.
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Aug 31, 2015 · The New Testament, entrenched in the Greco-Roman world, accepts the fact of slavery, commands slaves to obey their masters, and even recounts the return of a slave to his master. But as attitudes began to change and abolitionism became a motivating force, biblicists were challenged to reexamine the Bible in light of the new worldview.
