Slavery in Early Christianity

Jennifer A. Glancy offers a comprehensive re-examination of the evidence pertaining to slavery in early Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Glancy situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting. The churches, she shows, grew to maturity with the assumption that slaveholding was the norm.

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• Authors: Jennifer Glancy, Jennifer A. Glancy, Jennifer A. (Georg Professor of Religious Glancy, Glancy Jennifer A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2002
• EAN: 9780195136098
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513609-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Christianity, History of Religion, Ancient World, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, The Early Church