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Michael Clark

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Early Christians were as socially conditioned as everyone else in antiquity and late antiquity to embrace opportunities to dominate others and to view rigid hierarchies strictly enforced & maintained as indisputably good.

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Sarah E. Bond's avatar Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social
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Yes, I am quite aware. This reading is for my slavery in antiquity class, which I have been teaching since 2011 (=13 years + many publications). Still doesn't make it any less abhorrent.

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