You Are My Slaves

Martijn J. Stoutjesdijk, Ph.D. (2021), is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht (the Netherlands) on the role of the Bible in Dutch colonial slavery debates. He obtained his PhD degree with a study on slavery in early rabbinic and early Christian parables.

• AcknowledgmentsNote to the ReaderList of Figures, Tables, and Bildfelder1 Introduction: a Comparative Study of Slavery Parables1 Slavery Parables in Early Christianity and Early Rabbinic Judaism2 Comparison on Four Levels3 Outline of the Study2 Theory and Methodology1 Delimitations: Chronology, Topography and Terminology2 What Are Slavery Parables?3 Previous Research on Slavery Parables4 How to Analyze Slavery Parables3 Selling and Buying Slaves: Going from One Master to Another1 Same Day Delivery2 Debt-Slavery or Debt and Slavery?3 Slave or Free, Slave and Free?4 Reflection and Bildfeld4 When the Master Is Away: Obeying the Master’s Orders1 Receiving Assignments2 Absente Ero3 Going the Extra Mile?4 Reflection and Bildfeld5 Disciplining the Slave: the Threat of the Master1 Punishments2 Using Food as Carrot and Stick3 Serving for Rewards?4 Fleeing from the Master5 Reflection and Bildfeld6 Slaves and Meals: Elevation and Reversal1 Reversal and Elevation in the New Testament2 Reversal and Elevation in Early Rabbinic Parables3 Reflection and Bildfeld7 Conclusion: Working Out a Way of Living with the Heavenly Master1 Slavery Parables: Some Conclusions2 A Book about Comparison3 New Research Possibilities4 Final RemarksBibliographyIndex of Slavery ParablesIndex of Subjects