Ethics: Slavery

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	Scott S. Barchy, First Century Slavery in 1 Corinthians 7:21. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 11. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1973.
	J.M.G. Barclay, "Paul, Philemon and the Dilemma of Christian Slave Ownership," New Testament Studies 37 (1991): 161-86.
	Keith Bradley, Slavery and Society at Rome. Key Themes in Ancient History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pbk. ISBN: 0521378877. pp.216.
	Keith R. Bradley, Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 1987. Pbk. ISBN: 019520607X. pp.164.
	Keith R. Bradley, Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World 140 B.C.-70 B.C. Indiana University Press, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 0253312590. pp.208.
	Cecil John Cadoux [1883–1947], The Early Church and the World. A History of the Christian Attitude to Pagan Society and the State Down to the Time of Constantius. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1925. Hbk. pp.675. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Gregory C. Chirichigno, Debt Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 141. Sheffield: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffield Academic Press, 1993. Hbk. ISBN: 1850753598. pp.409.
	Muhammad A. Dandamaev, Slavery in Babylonia: From Napopolassar to Alexander the Great. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1984. ISBN: 0875801048.
	David Brion Davis, Slavery and Human Progress. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 1984. Hbk. ISBN: 0195034392. pp.394.
	Seymour Drescher & Stanley L. Engerman, eds., A Historical Guide to World Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 0195120914. pp.454.
	Léon Epsztein, Social Justice in the Ancient Near East and the People of the Bible. London: SCM Press, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 0334023343. pp.224.
	Moses I. Finley, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology. Penguin History. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0140134417. pp.208.
	Moses I. Finley, Classical Slavery. Studies in Post-slave Societies & Cultures. Cambridge: Frank Cass Publishers, 1987. Hbk. ISBN: 0714633208. pp.160.
	Nicholas Ralph Edmund Fisher, Slavery in Classical Greece. Classical World Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1998. ISBN: 1853991341. pp.128.
	M. Gangarin, "The Torture of Slaves in Athenian Law," Classical Philology 91 (1996): 1-18.
	Yvon Garlan, Slavery in Ancient Greece, Janet Lloyd (Translator). London: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0801495040. pp.310.
	Peter Garnsey, Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0521574331. pp.285.
	E. Garver, "Aristotle's Natural Slaves: Incomplete Praxeis and Incomplete Human Beings," Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (1994): 173-95.
	Kevin Giles, "The Biblical Argument for Slavery: Can the Bible Mislead? A Case Study in Hermeneutics," The Evangelical Quarterly 66.1 (Jan.-Mar. 1994): 3-17. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder] Kevin Giles has reworked this argument and filled it out in his book, The Trinity and Subordinationism: The Doctrine of God and the Contemporary Gender Debate. Intervarsity Press, 2002. Pbk. ISBN-13: 978-0830826636. pp. 215-268.
	J. Albert Harrill, The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity. Hermeneutische Untersuchungen Zur Theologie 32. Tübingen: Paul Mohr Verlag, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 3161469356. pp.273.
	Guenther Haas, "The Kingdom and Slavery: A Test Case for Social Ethics," Calvin Theological Journal 30 (1993): 108-29.
	Kenneth C. Hanson & Scott S. Bartchy, "Slavery," G.W. Bromiley, gen.ed., International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised, Vol. 4. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988. Hbk. pp.539-46.
	Stephen R. Haynes, "Original Dishonor: Noah's Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery," Journal of Southern Religion 3 (2000).
	Peter Hunt, Slaves, Warfare and Ideology in the Greek Historians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0521893909. pp.260.
	Bernard Lewis, Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0195053265. pp.193.
	Victor H. Matthew, "The Anthropology of Slavery in the Covenant Code," Bernard M. Levinson, ed., Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Revision, Interpolation and Development. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 181. Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffield Academic Press, 1994. Hbk. ISBN: 1850754985. pp.119-135.
	Dale B. Martin, Slavery as Salvation: Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 1990. Hbk. ISBN: 0300047355. pp.270.
	Milton Meltzer, Slavery: From the Rise of Western Civilization to the Renaissance. New York: Cowles Book Co., 1971. ISBN: 0402141210.
	Milton Meltzer, Slavery: A World History. New York: Da Capo Press, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0306805367. pp.608.
	Isaac Mendelsohn, Slavery in the Ancient Near East: A Comparative Study of Slavery in Babylonia, Assyria, Syria and Palestine from the Middle of the Third Millennium to the End of the First Millennium. London: Greenwood Press, 1978. Hbk. ISBN: 0313204993. pp.162.
	Isaac Mendelsohn, "Slavery in the Old Testament," G.A. Buttrick, ed., Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 4. New York: Abingdon, 1962. pp.383-91.
	John Warwick Montgomery, "Slavery, human dignity and human rights," The Evangelical Quarterly 79.2 (Apr.-June 2007): 113-132. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Carolyn Osiek, "Slavery in the Second Testament World," Biblical Theology Bulletin 22 (1992): 174-79.
	Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO Europe (ABC-CLIO), 1998. ISBN: 0874368855. pp.730.
	Junius P. Rodriguez, Chronology of World Slavery. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0874368847. pp.600.
	Arthur Rupprecht, "Christianity and the Slavery Question," Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 6.2 (May 1963): 64-69. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Robert Spencer, "Slavery, Christianity, and Islam," First Things (Feb 4, 2008).
	David L. Thompson, "Women, Men, Slaves and the Bible: Hermeneutical Inquiries," Christian Scholars Review 25 (1996): 326-49.
	Joseph Vogt, Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers ISBN: 0631153101. pp.237.
	Alan Watson, Roman Slave Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Hbk. ISBN: 0801834392.
	William J. Webb, Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2001. Pbk. Language: English ISBN: 0830815619. pp.320.
	Thomas E.J. Wiedemann, "The Regularity of Manumission in Roman," Classical Quarterly 35 (1985): 162-75.
	Thomas E.J. Wiedemann, ed., Greek and Roman Slavery: A Sourcebook. Baltimore: Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd., 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0415029724. pp.304.