FAMILY PLOTS: BURYING SLAVES DEEP IN HISTORICAL GROUND.
Despite the anthropological identification of slavery as an anti-kinship structure, some New Testament scholars have attempted to "kin-ify" the relations between slaveholders and slaves, that is, to interpret slavery as a fictive kinship structure. Commentators on Acts of the Apostles, for example,...
| Publicado en: | Biblical Interpretation Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 57 - 76 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2002
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