Slavery and Sexual Availability
Any investigation of slavery in the Roman Empire must contend with the sexual exploitation of slaves endemic to the system. Given the diversity of ancient Christian attitudes toward sexuality, there is no reason to expect that a slaveholding ethos touched all Christian communities in a uniform fashi...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2019
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The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
Année: 2019, Pages: 627-644 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Esclavage
/ Abus sexuel
/ Andreasakten
/ Chrétien
/ Asservissement
/ pomeia
/ Haustafel
/ Ménage
/ Ordre
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| Classifications IxTheo: | HC Nouveau Testament KAB Christianisme primitif |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | Any investigation of slavery in the Roman Empire must contend with the sexual exploitation of slaves endemic to the system. Given the diversity of ancient Christian attitudes toward sexuality, there is no reason to expect that a slaveholding ethos touched all Christian communities in a uniform fashion. At issue, however, is not whether the wider context of a slaveholding empire affected the formation of Christian attitudes toward sexuality. At issue is how. The purpose of this essay is to question whether early Christian silence on the issue should be construed as wholesale rejection of a system in which social status scripted social morality, or as complicity with that system. In the end, it is difficult to imagine how the churches could have challenged the right of a male slaveholder to exploit his domestic slaves sexually without challenging his right to claim ownership of other human beings. |
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| ISBN: | 0190213418 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190213398.013.29 |