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Jewish Slavery in Antiquity

Hardcover • 2005 • English • 1. edition

Jewish Slavery in Antiquity

By Catherine Hezser

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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained from employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that slavery remained a significant phenomenon of ancient Jewish everyday life and generated a discourse which resembled Graeco-Roman and early Christian views while at the same time preserving specifically Jewish nuances. Hezser examines the impact of domestic...Show more

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ISBN

9780199280865

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Jewish Slavery in Antiquity

Format

Hardcover

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