I begin with a quote from M. Finley, scholar of Greco-Roman slavery in antiquity, which will serve as a proof-text for addressing slavery and rabbinic Judaism: “It is noteworthy how much of the current debate about American slavery moves beyond disagreement about the immediate data and their interpretation to ‘other’ matters, to Catholicism and Protestantism, … More »
“A Woman is Acquired”: Slavery and Jewish Sexual Ethics
October 1, 2008