Jewish Slavery in Antiquity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 December 2005
- ISBN 9780199280865
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages452 pages
- Size 222x145x31 mm
- Weight 690 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained from employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that slavery remained a significant phenomenon of ancient Jewish everyday life and generated a discourse which resembled Graeco-Roman and early Christian views while at the same time preserving specifically Jewish nuances.
MoreLong description:
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained from employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that slavery remained a significant phenomenon of ancient Jewish everyday life and generated a discourse which resembled Graeco-Roman and early Christian views while at the same time preserving specifically Jewish nuances. Hezser examines the impact of domestic slavery on the ancient Jewish household and on family relationships. She discusses the perceived advantages of slaves over other types of labor and evaluates their role within the ancient Jewish economy. The ancient Jewish experience of slavery seems to have been so pervasive that slave images also entered theological discourse. Like their Graeco-Roman and Christian counterparts, ancient Jewish intellectuals did not advocate the abolition of slavery, but they used the biblical tradition and their own judgements to ameliorate the status quo.
...a comprehensive and absorbing study
Table of Contents:
I.The Status of Slaves
The Denationalization of Slaves
The Slave as Chattel and Human Being
Women, Slaves, and Minors
Hierarchical Equations and Differentiations
Between Slavery and Freedom
Summary
II. Slaves and the Family
Slaves within the Household
Master-Slave Relationships
Prostitutes and Concubines
Power Relationships
Summary
III. Slaves and the Economy
The Sources of Slaves
The Acquisition and Sale of Slaves
Slaves as Intermediaries in Business Transactions
The Location of Slaves in Ancient Jewish Society
The Manumission of Slaves
Summary
IV. The Symbolic Significance of Slavery
Slavery as Metaphor
Slave Parables
Slavery and the Exodus Experience
Summary
Conclusions
