Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 Bce-300 CE

This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean. Drawing upon methods developed in scholarship on book history and Atlantic slavery, the authors demonstrate the myriad ways in which the material and intellectual contributions of enslaved literary workers were vital to the composition, editing, copying, circulation, reading, and preservation of Roman texts.

Jeremiah Coogan is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University.
Candida R. Moss is Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham.
Joseph A. Howley is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University.