Slavery in Egypt

Mark Janzen has a good article on slavery in Egypt here.

Free eBook: The First Christian Slave: Onesimus in Context

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Slavery in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy

Zev Farber has a good discussion here of the different laws related to slaves in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. I would not hold to many of his conclusions but Farber does a pretty good job of laying out the data.

Translating New Testament Slavery Texts

Philip Jenkins discusses the challenges related to translating slavery texts in the New Testament here.

Slavery and Philemon

Phil Long has been blogging on Philemon and slavery recently. Today's post addresses some recent scholarship regarding Greco-Roman and Jewish slavery and succinctly addresses some recent scholarship on the matter. You can check it out here and you might want to bookmark this excellent blog.

Piper on How Paul Worked to Overcome Slavery

See John Piper's post on how Paul worked to overcome slavery here.