Download or read book The Humanisation of Slavery in the Old Testament written by Thomas Schirrmacher and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The Humanisation of Slavery in Old Testament Law by David L. Baker • Slavery, Human Dignity and Human Rights by John Warwick Montgomery • Slavery in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, and Today by Thomas Schirrmacher Three scholars discuss slavery in the Old Testament and a Christian view of slavery. They argue, that slavery in the OT had not much in common with Roman- Greek, Muslim or modern European slavery, as the slaves where protected by the legal system. They believe that there is a road from the humanisation of slavery in the OT through the soft opposition against slavery in the New Testament to the abolition of slavery by Christians and in Christian nations. The last essay contains a longer section on “The Role of Evangelicals in the Abolition of Slavery“, that summarizes the research of the last decades showing that the uncorrupted oppositions by pious people and the power of the masses without direct political influence changed history, the first major human rights campaign of history.
Download or read book The Humanisation of Slavery in the Old Testament written by Thomas Schirrmacher and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery written by Joshua Aaron Bowen and published by Digital Hammurabi. This book was released on 2023-08-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The God of the Old Testament commanded and endorsed many practices that we find morally reprehensible today. High on the list was the institution of slavery, which features prominently in several sections of the Hebrew Bible. Fathers could sell their daughters into slavery, masters could beat their slaves, creditors could carry off children for failure to repay a debt, and foreigners could be kept for life, passed down as inherited property. How are we to make sense of all of this from our modern point of view? Atheists and skeptics will often say that the God of the Old Testament was a moral monster for endorsing such atrocities. Christians will often respond that the slavery in the Hebrew Bible wasn’t as bad as we think, and was more like having a job or owning a credit card. While both sides of this debate are sincere in their positions, neither are ultimately correct. Our conclusions must derive from a thorough understanding of both the Old Testament and ancient Near Eastern contexts. This extensively revised and expanded second edition includes a wealth of information and analysis, including three additional chapters and two new appendices. Dr. Bowen thoroughly explores law collections of the ancient Near East, asking why they matter, and how they influence our understanding of slavery in the Old Testament. A comparative analysis of the legal provisions made for the treatment of slaves in the ancient world sheds extensive light on how slavery in the Old Testament should be viewed in relation to other ancient cultures, and an entire chapter explores biblical slavery after the Old Testament, through the New Testament, early church, and down to the antebellum south. This book will: Provide a detailed overview of slavery laws and practices in the Old Testament and the ancient Near East. Examine the significant – and highly controversial – passages in the Hebrew Bible that deal with slavery, including laws about beating your slave, taking foreign chattel slaves, and what to do if a slave runs away from their master. Answer the most challenging questions about slavery in the Old Testament, including, “Could you beat your slave within an inch of their life and get away with it?”, “Were slaves just property that had no human rights?”, and “Did the Old Testament really endorse slavery?” Consider how the biblical treatment of slaves changed from the Old to New Testament, and whether Old Testament slavery was substantially different to slavery in the American antebellum south.
Download or read book Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery written by Joshua Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bible Against Slavery written by Theodore Dwight Weld and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible Against Slavery is a study on the subject of human rights written by American abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld with the goal to refute the argument that Bible supports slavery. The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity. However, the slavery mentioned in the Bible is quite different from chattel slavery practiced in the American South, and in some cases the word "slave" is a mistranslation. The author claims that the spirit of slavery never seeks shelter in the Bible. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_
Download or read book Slavery and the Bible Or Slavery as Seen in Its Punishment written by Jacob L. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is God a Vindictive Bully written by Paul Copan and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. But a rising tide of critics within the church claim that Moses and other "primitive," violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, "textual" Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, "actual" God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so? Following his popular book Is God a Moral Monster?, noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.
Download or read book Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible written by John Richter Jones and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery written by Joshua Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What the Bible Really Says about Slavery written by Elreta Dodds and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slaves in the New Testament written by James Albert Harrill and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting new analysis of slaves and slavery in the New Testament, Harrill breaks new ground with his extensive use of Greco-Roman evidence, discussion of hermeneutics, and treatment of the use of the New Testament in antebellum U.S. slavery debates. He examines in detail Philemon, 1 Corinthians, Romans, Luke-Acts, and the household codes.
Download or read book A Scriptural View of Slavery and Abolition written by William P. N. Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bible View of Slavery written by John Henry Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slavery Examined in the Light of the Bible written by Luther Lee and published by Scholarly Press. This book was released on 1855 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teachings of the New Testament on Slavery written by Joseph Parrish Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outgrowing God written by Peter S. Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a cast of characters, with different perspectives, thinking through some of the biggest questions in life, as they discuss atheist Richard Dawkins's book Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide. Written in the form of a dialogue between members of a student book club, Outgrowing God? A Beginner's Guide to Richard Dawkins and the God Debate encourages critical thinking about Professor Dawkins's arguments concerning God, Jesus, and the Bible.
Download or read book An Investigation of Slavery in the Old Testament written by Gladstone Allonzo Knight and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
