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Journal Article
God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible
2025
Overview
[...]the seventh and eight chapters \"explore how Christian identity was shaped by Roman ideas about 'good slaves' and 'bad slaves' and tease[s] out some of the legacies of these ideas in the history of biblical interpretation\" (p. 207). [...]Moss argues for the probability that several specific biblical figures were enslaved. [...]Moss assumes that enslaved scribes often exerted significant influence over the language and content of his finished works (p. 74).
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Evangelical Theological Society
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