New Testament scholarship and Paul have had a complicated
relationship over the question of slavery. For many decades there
has been a struggle to reconcile the abolitionist cause with a
biblical text that seemingly supports the institution of slavery.
Then the more recent discovery of inscriptions and documents
referring to slaves in antiquity has added new dimensions to the
debate. Furthermore, new interpretative approaches to the New
Testament, including social-scientifi c criticism, rhetorical
criticism and postcolonial criticism, have challenged earlier
interpretations of Paul's statements about slavery. The issue has
even more recently taken on a new shape as descendants of former
North American slaves have engaged with the way Paul has been
interpreted and used to justify the enslavement of their ancestors.
In this volume, John Byron provides a survey of 200 years of
scholarly interpretation of Paul and slavery with a focus on the
last 35 years. After a general overview of the history of research,
Byron focusses in turn on four specific areas: African-American
responses to Paul, Paul's slavery metaphors, the elliptical phrase
in 1 Corinthians 7.21, and the letter to Philemon. An epilogue
highlights four areas in which scholarship is continuing to change
its understanding of ancient slavery and, in consequence, its
interpretation of Paul. New Testament students and scholars will fi
nd the volume a valuable specialist resource that collects and
analyses the most important developments on Paul and slavery.
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