The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

Title: The narrative of the Honourable John Byron: (commodore in a late expedition round the world), containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on…

New Testament scholarship and Paul have had a complicated relationship over the question of slavery. For many decades there has been a struggle to reconcile the abolitionist cause with a…

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Byron’s Narrative of the Loss of the Wager; With an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia from the…

Paul’s epistle to Philemon is one of the shortest books in the entire Bible, and it certainly leaves plenty to the imagination. From the pen of an accomplished New Testament…

John Byron analyzes slavery metaphors in the Pauline Epistles by interpreting them from the background of Paul’s Jewish heritage rather than Greco-Roman slavery. Slavery to God was a well-developed tradition…

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First published in 1880, this biography explores the life of Lord Byron (1788-1824), one of Britain’s greatest poets. Setting Byron’s work in an historical context, Nichol shows how he was…