[B-Greek] PAIS v DOULOS
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Wed Jan 28 10:11:56 EST 2009
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From: "James Ernest" <james.ernest at gmail.com>
To: "B- Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] PAIS v DOULOS
>I find Carl's suggestion ("what I suspect is that DOULOS is the socio-
> economic term for a servant in relationship to a KURIOS in an OIKOS as
> a socio-economic unit, while PAIS is what that servant is referred to
> as by those whom he [or she . . .] works for/serves ") quite
> interesting . . . you'd probably need to see further analysis of the
> social implications before running with that. Even though you say
> you're interested in OT slavery, I think you'd need to look at a book
> or two by J. Albert Harrill:
>
> The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity. Tübingen: Mohr
> Siebeck, 1995. Reprinted in paperback edition, 1998. (See especially
> the discussiosn of vocabulary in the first chapter.)
>
> Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social and Moral Dimensions.
> Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006.
John G. Nordling's *Philemon*, a Concordia Seminary commentary, has an
excellent section on slavery in the ancient world (monograph length, over a
hundred pages in fact). Amazing that a commentary on Philemon can generate
over 300 pages... :)
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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