Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)

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The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity Within the first centuries of the Common Era is a query of putting up with interest. On this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom Within the first and second centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread of Christianity and rethinks the character of Christian martyrdom itself. Martyrdom, Moss shows, was once no longer a single idea, theology, or practice: there have been diverse perspectives and understandings of what it meant to die for Christ.

Beginning with an overview of ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish ideas about death, Moss demonstrates that there have been many cultural contexts within which early Christian views of martyrdom were very much at home. She then shows how distinctive and diverging theologies of martyrdom emerged in different ancient congregations. Within the process she reexamines the authenticity of early Christian stories about martyrs and calls into query the dominant scholarly narrative concerning the spread of martyrdom Within the ancient world.

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