In which first century slave and friend of apostle Paul, Onesimus, is transported through time, space and more importantly the power of the imagination to the pages of a comic strip to re-encounter the one time fundamentalist killer turned Christian superperson, Paul. Read the comic here:
Old Testament Slave Laws (the Third)
I began a brief comment on this subject and remixed it a few days later. Essentially I was commenting on the fact that certain aspects of slavery in Deuteronomy were surprisingly at odds with the surrounding laws of other Ancient Near Eastern societies. The socio-economic reality of “slavery” is remarkably liberated at least [...]
Old Testament Slave Laws part Deux
Okay I was a little bit misleading in that last post. The verses on slaves were not “Bible” verses – I just said that I was interested in ancient slavery laws of the Ancient Near East. That is what they are, just not from the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy – they were [...]
