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The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts (Paperback)
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The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World
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The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts
analyzes a large corpus of early Christian texts and
Pseudepigraphic materials to understand how the authors of these
texts used, abused and silenced enslaved characters to articulate
their own social, political, and theological visions. The focus is
on excavating the texts "from below" or "against the grain" in
order to notice the slaves, and in so doing, to problematize and
(re)imagine the narratives. Noticing the slaves as literary
iterations means paying attention to broader theological,
ideological, and rhetorical aims of the texts within which enslaved
bodies are constructed. The analysis demonstrates that by silencing
slaves and using a rhetoric of violence, the authors of these texts
contributed to the construction of myths in which slaves functioned
as a useful trope to support the combined power of religion and
empire. Thus was created not only the perfect template for the rise
and development of a Christian discourse of slavery, but also a
rationale for subsequent violence exercised against slave bodies
within the Christian Empire. The study demonstrates the value of
using the tools and applying the insights of subaltern studies to
the study of the Pseudepigrapha and in early Christian texts. This
volume will be of interest not only to scholars of early
Christianity, but also to those working on the history of slavery
and subaltern studies in antiquity.
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