Slaves, Freedpersons, and Parables: Two Notes on a Recent Study of the Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5
This article advances scholarship on Hermas’s social status by developing two suggestions from Mary Ann Beavis’s recent study of Herm. Sim. 5.2.2-11 (55.2-11). It first reads the exchange between the freedman and slaves (Herm. Sim. 5.2.9-10 [55.9-10]) and the reciprocity between rich and poor (Herm....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Biblica
Year: 2021, Volume: 102, Issue: 2, Pages: 270-280 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hermas, Pastor
/ Slave
/ Emancipated slave
/ Parable
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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| Summary: | This article advances scholarship on Hermas’s social status by developing two suggestions from Mary Ann Beavis’s recent study of Herm. Sim. 5.2.2-11 (55.2-11). It first reads the exchange between the freedman and slaves (Herm. Sim. 5.2.9-10 [55.9-10]) and the reciprocity between rich and poor (Herm. Sim. 2.5-7 [51.5-7]) as attempts to uphold the traditional value of reciprocal gift-giving. It then explores the parable’s christological interpretation (Herm. Sim. 5.5.2-5.6.4 [58.2-59.4]) as a description of the Son’s salvific work in terms familiar to a freedperson’s experience. These elements are best understood if Hermas is a freedman in the Shepherd. |
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| ISSN: | 2385-2062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/BIB.102.2.3289502 |