Freedom in Galatians: A Freed Slaveâs Perspective

Robin G. Thompson

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Here, I turn my attention to Paulâs letter to the Galatian churches. I trace the various terms and ideas associated with manumission and freedom through this letter and compare the freedom found in the lived experience of freedpersons with the freedom Paul proclaimed. I do this by considering the same topics explored for Greek and Roman manumission: reasons for providing freedom, means and cost of providing freedom, extent of freedom provided, and benefits of freedom. I conclude by proposing that an understanding of the manumission of slaves in the first century and the circumscribed freedom they received leads to an understanding that the freedom spoken of in GalatiansÂ 5:1 entails not only spiritual freedom but individual freedom as well.

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Paul's Declaration of Freedom from a Freed Slave's Perspective

Series:Â Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 210

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004532618

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 Mar 2023

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  - Biblical Interpretations
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