Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2018
Abstract
Understanding the physical realities and social attitudes concerning incarceration in the ancient world provides a fuller context to the New Testament’s unadorned and ambiguous references to people’s experience of being held in custody. The context is crucial for interpreting biblical passages that commend caring for prisoners, that reaffirm God’s strength and nullify the ignominy associated with incarceration, and that declare God’s power over the means and motives of imperial coercion. Such passages also compel the contemporary church to advocate on behalf of prisoners and to denounce the systems that regularly victimize them.
Publication Title
Interpretation
ISSN
0020-9643
Publisher
SAGE Publishing, in association with Union Presbyterian Seminary
Volume
72
Issue
3
First Page
269
Last Page
281
DOI
doi.org/10.1177/0020964318766296
Published Citation
Skinner, Matthew L. “Remember My Chains: New Testament Perspectives on Incarceration.” Interpretation 72, no. 3 (2018): 269–81. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0020964318766296. Copyright © 2018 SAGE Publications. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
Recommended Citation
Skinner, Matthew L., "Remember My Chains: New Testament Perspectives on Incarceration" (2018). Faculty Publications. 236.
https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/faculty_articles/236
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