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The Real Meaning of Sacral Manumission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

F. Sokolowski
F. Sokolowski
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Paris
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The problem of the manumission of slaves by sale to a divinity or by consecration has been studied by many scholars. Nevertheless the following questions still arise. What real sense had the sale? What characterizes the sale and the consecration respectively? How do they bring about one's liberty? What is a fictitious or trust sale? Do the several manumission procedures of Delphi, of central Greece, of Macedonia, of Asia Minor and of Syria reflect the same customs and traditions? Cameron, after discussing a number of inscriptions of Imperial times relating to sacral manumission, puts the following question: “It would be interesting to inquire whether this conception is to be regarded as having survived continuously with the institution from an early period in Greece, or as having been revived and strengthened by new social and religious influence after remaining dormant in a period in which sacral manumission was no more than a legal fiction.” I should like to try to answer this question.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 1954 , pp. 173 - 181
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1954

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