Hagar, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Why We Cannot Agree on What the Bible Says about Slavery

This article examines the history of interpretation of Hagar’s story in Gen 16 within debates over slavery through the narrative frame of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The character Mr. Wilson echoes the hermeneutics of very real nineteenth-century apologists for slavery, a tradit...

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Main Author: Judd, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Eisenbrauns 2021
In: Bulletin for biblical research
Year: 2021, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-15
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hagar, Biblical person / Slavery / Bible. Genesis 16 / Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811-1896, Uncle Tom's cabin
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
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