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Cargando... Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarshippor Hector Avalos
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book examines the claims that slavery ended because of Christianity, and traces the biblical verses used to make the claim. The author demonstrates that the Bible is much more pro-slavery than anti-slavery, and supports his thesis with ample argumentation, written lucidly. There is some technical jargon that might send you to the dictionary if you are new to biblical exegesis, but not so much that the book is inaccessible to lay readers. Perhaps more interesting than the way the Bible treats slavery is his discussion of how biblical scholars work, giving the reader an inside look at the moving parts of a scholarly field. For someone who is a scientist, that is a fascinating exploration. The way biblical scholars work ties intimately with the view of the Bible and ethics, and it seems difficult to separate the two. This book is highly recommended. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In this immensely wide-ranging and fascinating study, Avalos critiques the common claim that the abolition of slavery was due in large part to the influence of biblical ethics. Such a claim, he argues, is characteristic of a broader phenomenon in biblical scholarship, which focuses on defending, rather than describing, the ethical norms encountered in biblical texts. The first part of Avalos's critique explores how modern scholars have praised the supposed superiority of biblical ethics at the cost of diminishing or ignoring many similar features in ancient Near Eastern cultures. These features include manumission, fixed terms of service, familial rights, and egalitarian critiques of slavery. At the same time, modern scholarship has used the standard tools of biblical exegesis in order to minimize the ethically negative implications of many biblical references to slavery. The second part of the book concentrates on how the Bible has been used throughout Christian history both to maintain and to extend slavery. In particular, Avalos offers detailed studies of papal documents used to defend the Church's stance on slavery. Discussions of Gregory of Nyssa, Aquinas and Luther, among others, show that they are not such champions of freedom as they are often portrayed. Avalos's close readings of the writings of major abolitionists such as Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce and Frederick Douglass show an increasing shift away from using the Bible as a support for abolitionism. Biblical scholars have rarely recognized that pro-slavery advocates could use the Bible just as effectively. According to Avalos, one of the complex mix of factors leading to abolition was the abandonment of the Bible as an ethical authority. The case of the biblical attitude to slavery is just one confirmation of how unsuitable the Bible is as a manual of ethics in the modern world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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