THESIS 16: PATRIARCHY vs. POLITICAL SLAVERY

Nimrod built his city by slavery, and the relationship between the polis and slavery is an inescapable symbiosis.[54] The Biblical alternative to slavery to the State is domestic (household) apprenticeship.[55]

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm).

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

54. Genesis 10:8; 9:25-27; 47:21 (LXX [NIV])

55. Proverbs 17:2 + Genesis 15:2-3; 17:12; 14:14; Exodus 21:2-11; Deuteronomy 15:12-18; Jeremiah 34:8-17; Leviticus 25:39ff.

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