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Semeia 83/84: Slavery in Text and Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

speak of them as exercising prerogatives is to profoundly misunderstand the elementary realities of slavery. Patterson has explained the function of servile subordinates in the imperial household through the analysis of what he has called “palatine slavery” (Patterson: 14; see 302–306), the servitude of powerful elite registers in imperial and royal administrations. These slaves, though wielding great power and exercising wide-ranging prerogatives on behalf of their masters, were serviceable precisely
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