1. Dependence, servility and coerced labor in time and space David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman Part I. Slavery in Africa and Asia Minor: 2. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire in the early modern era Ehud R. Toledano 3. Slavery in Islamic Africa Rudolph T. Ware III 4. Slavery in non-Islamic West Africa, 1420-1820 G. Ugo Nwokeji 5. Slaving and resistance to slaving in west central Africa Roquinaldo Ferreira 6. White slavery in the early modern era William G. Clarence-Smith and David Eltis Part II. Slavery in Asia: 7. Slavery in Southeast Asia, 1420-1804 Kerry Ward 8. Slavery in early modern China Pamela Kyle Crossley Part III. Slavery among the Indigenous Americans: 9. Slavery in indigenous North America Leland Donald 10. Indigenous slavery in South America, 1492-1820 Neil L. Whitehead Part IV. Slavery and Serfdom in Eastern Europe: 11. Slavery and the rise of serfdom in Russia Richard Hellie 12. Manorialism and rural subjection in east central Europe, 1500-1800 Edgar Melton Part V. Slavery in the Americas: 13. Slavery in the Atlantic islands and the early modern Spanish Atlantic world William D. Phillips, Jr 14. Slavery and politics in colonial Portuguese America: the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Joao Fragoso and Ana Rios 15. Slavery in the British Caribbean Philip D. Morgan 16. Slavery on the colonial North American mainland Lorena S. Walsh 17. Slavery in the French Caribbean, 1635-1804 Laurent Dubois 18. Slavery and the slave trade of the minor Atlantic powers Pieter Emmer Part VI. Cultural and Demographic Patterns in the Americas: 19. Demography and family structures B. W. Higman 20. The concept of creolization Richard Price 21. Black women in the early Americas Betty Wood Part VII. Legal Structures, Economics and the Movement of Coerced Peoples in the Atlantic World: 22. Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800 David Richardson 23. Slavery, freedom and the law in the Atlantic world, 1420-1807 Sue Peabody 24. European forced labor in the early modern era Timothy Coates 25. Transatlantic slavery and economic development in the Atlantic world: West Africa, 1450-1850 Joseph E. Inikori Part VIII. Slavery and Resistance: 26. Slave worker rebellions and revolution in the Americas to 1804 Mary Turner 27. Runaways and quilombolas in the Americas Manolo Florentino and Marcia Amantino.

The Cambridge world history of slavery

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: The Ancient Mediterranean World

Profit with Delight: The Literary Genre of the Acts of the Apostles

The Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts: Tracing the History of Research Social Identity and the 'Other': A Methodological and Historical Overview Expanding the Ethnic Horizon: The Spirit and Allocentric Identity in Luke 1-2 Critiquing Defective Identities: Spirit-empowered figures and In-group Bias in Luke 3-4 Initiating a Scandal of Universal Particularity: The Spirit in Acts 1-2 Consummating a New Identity: The Community Summaries and the Identity-forming Power of a Group Incorporating the 'Other': The Spirit and Superordinate Identity in Acts 6 - 9 Transcending Identity: The Spirit and Trans-Ethnic Identity in Acts 10 - 15 Conclusion: Ethnicity in the Early Jesus Movement Bibliography.

The Spirit and the 'Other': Social Identity, Ethnicity and Intergroup Reconciliation in Luke-Acts

This survey of the scale and sources of the Roman slave supply will be published in Keith Bradley and Paul Cartledge (eds.), The Cambridge world history of slavery, 1: The ancient Mediterranean world. © Walter Scheidel. scheidel@stanford.edu

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The Roman slave supply

The promise in Acts 2 (disclosed in Peter's programmatic citation of Joel at Pentecost) that women in general and female slaves in particular will become Spirit-inspired prophets is never fully realized and is even resisted to some degree within the wider Lukan narrative. An examination of three cases involving direct speech by slave-girls (paidiskai) in Luke-Acts, set within diverse literary and social contexts (Lk. 22.54-62; Acts 12.12-17; 16.16-18), uncovers a consistent pattern of truthful proclamation on the part of each slave-girl followed, however, by some form of repudiation-even stigmatization-of her and her message. Despite its more inclusive and receptive ideals, ultimately Luke-Acts more mirrors than challenges conventional first-century Mediterranean society in its suppression of lower-class female voices.

Out of Mind, Out of Voice: Slave-Girls and Prophetic Daughters in Luke-Acts

A critical but neglected issue in interpreting the incident in Acts 8:26-40 involving the Ethiopian eunuch has been the relevance of his reading of Isaiah 53 to his peculiar identity as a eunuch in first-century society. Social and cultural scenarios pertaining to honor and shame, purity and pollution, temple and household, and ritual and status transformation enable us to depict multiple dimensions of the eunuch's precarious place in the Jewish world of his day. But they also allow us to chart the process whereby Isaiah 53, interpreted christologically, challenges this traditional world and ultimately makes room for the devout eunuch within the scriptural-messianic community.

The Ethiopian Eunuch and His Bible: a Social-Science Analysis

The story of Saul-Paul in Acts traces not only his remarkable transformation from archenemy of the gospel to its most avid, dynamic promoter—especially among Gentiles—but also his persisting strugg...

Paul's Odyssey in Acts: Status Struggles and Island Adventures


 This article undertakes an intertextual reading of Acts’s story of the Ethiopian eunuch with Song of Songs, focusing on similar and distinctive aspects of multifaceted characterizations related to sexual identity, social-political status, environmental setting, and religious orientation. This reading highlights two parts of the biblical canon that create limited space for borderline, unconventional persons and practices, particularly pushing normative boundaries pertaining to gender, sexuality, and hierarchy.

Setting the Story of the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26–40) to the Soundtrack of Song of Songs: An Intertextual and Intersectional Performance

Christian assessments of healthcare must grapple not only with the dizzying complexities of insuring the wellness of eight billion bodies worldwide but also with the yawning chasm between antiquated modes of healthcare in Christianity’s formative era and those of modern medicine. How do we move from the world of demons, humors (not the funny kind), and bloodlettings to that of viruses, genomes, and laser surgeries?

F. Scott Spencer

Papers

Out of Mind, Out of Voice: Slave-Girls and Prophetic Daughters in Luke-Acts

The Ethiopian Eunuch and His Bible: a Social-Science Analysis

Paul's Odyssey in Acts: Status Struggles and Island Adventures

Setting the Story of the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26–40) to the Soundtrack of Song of Songs: An Intertextual and Intersectional Performance

Major Review: Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity