Candida Moss

Drawing upon caricatures about ancient slave traders, early Christian writers portray Marcion as a textual pirate and mutilator of scripture.

There is very little archeological evidence for this kind of slave trader. This lecture by Candida Moss (University of Birmingham) investigates the realities of the Roman slave trade and suggests that a much wider and more educated group of people were involved in trafficking than is generally acknowledged. 

An event of the long-term Academy Project ‘The Late Antique Biblical Exegesis of Alexandria and Antioch’ at the Research Centre for Primary Sources of the Ancient World at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Faculty of Theology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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