Add to ORKGThe article examines four motifs/textual corpora in the Bible which have been referred to by those in favour of slavery: (1) the Exodus motif, (2) the Curse of Noah, (3) the parables of Jesus, and (4) the epistles of Paul. It is argued in the article that Christianity, with its canonized metaphors of slavery actually delayed the abolition of slavery in the 19th century by relativizing and idealizing it. It is thus most crucial to note that one and the same collection of books may be interpreted and applied in diametrically opposite ways
The slavery in the Greco-Roman provides resources to interpret Paul’s idea of slavery as a metaphor ...
Every year during Passover Jews commemorate the liberation of their ancestors from Egypt. It was God...
This project combines social-science methodology with a narrative critical reading strategy in order...
Metaphors in the New Testament come down to us pregnant with historical setting. Although we may eas...
In this article it is examined how Paul used slavery imagery in Galatians 4 when dealing with the th...
This dissertation argues that transatlantic abolitionists used the Bible to condemn American slavery...
Slavery existed in most ancient cultures and continues to exist indirectly in some societies in its ...
This article surveys the Pauline teaching in the Epistle to the Galatians of the status of Christian...
This article surveys the literary traditions related to Noah, the ark, and the flood in early Chris...
Slavery existed in most ancient cultures and continues to exist indirectly in some societies in its ...
This article argues that by reading the spectacle of Jacob’s struggle with the angel/man in Genesis ...
Slavery in the United States is an area in history that has been thoroughly researched and interpret...
Since the beginning of slavery blacks discovered in the Bible stories which provided not only narra...
Racial ideas which developed in the modern west were forged with reference to a Christian worldview ...
Grappe Christian. John Byron, Slavery Metaphors in Early Judaism and Pauline Christianity. A Traditi...
The slavery in the Greco-Roman provides resources to interpret Paul’s idea of slavery as a metaphor ...
Every year during Passover Jews commemorate the liberation of their ancestors from Egypt. It was God...
This project combines social-science methodology with a narrative critical reading strategy in order...
Metaphors in the New Testament come down to us pregnant with historical setting. Although we may eas...
In this article it is examined how Paul used slavery imagery in Galatians 4 when dealing with the th...
This dissertation argues that transatlantic abolitionists used the Bible to condemn American slavery...
Slavery existed in most ancient cultures and continues to exist indirectly in some societies in its ...
This article surveys the Pauline teaching in the Epistle to the Galatians of the status of Christian...
This article surveys the literary traditions related to Noah, the ark, and the flood in early Chris...
Slavery existed in most ancient cultures and continues to exist indirectly in some societies in its ...
This article argues that by reading the spectacle of Jacob’s struggle with the angel/man in Genesis ...
Slavery in the United States is an area in history that has been thoroughly researched and interpret...
Since the beginning of slavery blacks discovered in the Bible stories which provided not only narra...
Racial ideas which developed in the modern west were forged with reference to a Christian worldview ...
Grappe Christian. John Byron, Slavery Metaphors in Early Judaism and Pauline Christianity. A Traditi...
The slavery in the Greco-Roman provides resources to interpret Paul’s idea of slavery as a metaphor ...
Every year during Passover Jews commemorate the liberation of their ancestors from Egypt. It was God...
This project combines social-science methodology with a narrative critical reading strategy in order...