How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

weren’t slaves. When you look at the Old Testament, you find Israelites who had fellow Israelites as slaves (for a limited time). In New Testament times you would find Romans and Greeks of the same race and ethnicity having Roman and Greek slaves. Back then, slavery was not race based as slavery was in the United States.