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Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible appears to give mixed and even conflicting signals on four contentious issues: slavery, the Sabbath, war, and God’s charge for women. In Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women, New Testament scholar Willard Swartley seeks, in a spirit of unity and dialogue, to clarify the interpretive difficulties surrounding these topics. A predecessor to his 2003 publication, Homosexuality, this book...

and unjust evils of slavery cannot be countenanced as in any way compatible with Christian moral teaching and conduct.50 Further, in our biblical and evangelical opposition to slavery we hold that (1) slavery violates the eighth and tenth commandments—don’t steal and don’t covet; (2) Hebrew servitude was voluntary, altogether different from American slavery; and (3) the beastly conditions and brutal treatment of slaves cannot be reconciled with the biblical, Christian ethic of love.51 Before we pursue
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