Pauline Slave Welfare in Historical Context: An Equality Analysis

W. H. Paul Thompson

Pauline Slave Welfare in Historical Context: An Equality Analysis
Format
Paperback
Publisher
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
Country
Germany
Published
31 October 2022
Pages
450
ISBN
9783161612145

Pauline Slave Welfare in Historical Context: An Equality Analysis

W. H. Paul Thompson

W. H. Paul Thompson critiques modern scholarship on Pauline slavery for failing to define and reason consistently about equality. Instead, he engages in an equality analysis of Aristotle and Seneca in their Greco-Roman contexts, the Torah and its Jewish reception, and selected Pauline texts. Focusing on slave welfare
how slaves should be treated relative to free persons of the same historical context
rather than on abolitionism or reinforcement of slave submission, the author argues for a distinctive Jewish ethic of numerically equal treatment between slave and free that imitates Yahweh’s impartiality. The Apostle reorients this ethic into a Christocentric framework to intensify both the quality of slave obedience and the degree of slave welfare required relative to the prevailing Roman ethos.

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