Women in Evangelical Christianity
Submit a 5 – 7-page (not including a Title page & Bibliography)
written research essay that contains an explanation of your object of study.
Following these instructions:
(1) Assignment topics: Women in Evangelical Christianity the Bible and Slavery
(2) Your analysis of the topic from the perspective of (1) of the following:
• Classification
• social structure
• social practices/habitus
• Legitimation
• authority, & authenticity
(Each of these terms is discussed extensively in the textbook so please use it to guide your analysis).
Sample Solution
Slavery was part of life in the biblical world, and slave women experienced it differently than slave men. Even ancient Israelite and early rabbinic law treated enslaved women differently than enslaved men and enslaved Israelites differently than enslaved foreigners. (See a list of sources on a range of Jewish views concerning slavery.) The New Testament commanded slaves to obey their masters in all things, and owners sometimes coerced their enslaved women, girls and boys into sex or made them work as prostitutes. Enslaved Christians were therefore burdened with the pain of exploitation compounded by the moral dilemmas posed by the teachings of their church, and although some early Christians spoke out against the sexual exploitation of enslaved persons, their writings don’t speak of punishing Christian men for sexually exploiting their slave girls or women.
