| Title | : | Slavery as Salvation: The Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity |
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| ISBN | : | 0300047355 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780300047356 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 |
| Publication | : | First published October 24, 1990 |
Early Christians frequently used metaphors about slavery, calling themselves slaves of God and Christ and referring to their leaders as slave representatives of Christ. Most biblical scholars have insisted that this language would have been distasteful to potential converts in the Greco-Roman world, and they have wondered why early Christians such as Paul used the image of slavery to portray salvation. In this book, the author addresses the issue by examining the social history and rhetorical and theological conventions of the times.
Slavery as Salvation: The Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity Reviews
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Eleutheria. The word was strange at first to me, Greek not being my mother tongue. Yet, by the time I encountered the concept in this book, the word was familiar to me from an earlier encounter with it in the work of Samuel Beckett. I knew that it was the title of an unpublished play of his. I had not remembered that the word eleutheria means freedom.
Dale Martin’s Slavery As Salvation is so close a concordance to a couple of sections in Paul’s letters to the Corinthinians that it brought me to consider the wider context of these letters. Fortunately, this month’s Atlantic magazine has a nice article about this period of history:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904...
