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.
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