Reading Philemon with Onesimus in the postcolony: exploring a postcolonial runaway slave hypothesis

For centuries, the Philemon narrative has been read as the story of a slave that ran away from his master and must now be reconciled to him, and continue their master-slave relationship. Reading the narrative through a postcolonial lens yields another form of interpretation: reading the text with t...

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Main Author: Obusitswe Tiroyabone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2016-12-01
Series:Acta Theologica
Online Access:https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/2794
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