ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book demonstrates the value of using the tools and applying the insights of Subaltern studies to the study of ancient slaves in the Pseudepigrapha and in some early Christian texts. It focuses on Chloe’s people in 1 Corinthians 1:11 and suggests that a closer link between the female slave and Malchus, and have shown how her questions remain accusatory. The book considers two specific women slaves, one named and associated with a Christ-believing group Rhoda, the maid slave in Acts 12:15, and the other nameless and lacking association with a Christ-group the merchants’ fortune-telling slave woman in Acts. It highlights violence exercised against the slaves and shows how the texts assume the slaves to be vulnerable to such violence. Violence against slaves’ bodies is taken for granted; there is no interest in slaves as humans, even when they are part of Christ-groups.
