Table of Contents

I.The Status of Slaves
1: The Denationalization of Slaves
2: The Slave as Chattel and Human Being
3: Women, Slaves, and Minors
4: Hierarchical Equations and Differentiations
5: Between Slavery and Freedom
6: Summary
II. Slaves and the Family
1: Slaves within the Household
2: Master-Slave Relationships
3: Prostitutes and Concubines
4: Power Relationships
5: Summary
III. Slaves and the Economy
1: The Sources of Slaves
2: The Acquisition and Sale of Slaves
3: Slaves as Intermediaries in Business Transactions
4: The Location of Slaves in Ancient Jewish Society
5: The Manumission of Slaves
6: Summary
IV. The Symbolic Significance of Slavery
1: Slavery as Metaphor
2: Slave Parables
3: Slavery and the Exodus Experience
4: Summary
Conclusions

About the Author

Catherine Hezser is Lippert Professor of Jewish Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

Reviews

a carefully crafted study that is ambitious in scope, and her scholarship makes this book a significant contribution to Jewish and Roman history in late antiquity. THES