[PDF.70hg] Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity (Context of Early Christianity)

Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity (Context of Early Christianity)

[PDF.ya34] Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity (Context of Early Christianity)

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 | #2071133 in Books |  imusti |  2002-03-24 |  2002-02-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.50 x5.50l,.61 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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|| |"This volume aims at offering undergraduate students in various disciplines (religion, classics, Jewish studies, etc.) a survey of ancient sources about those kinds of"noble death" that can be called martyrdom or are rather similar to martyrdom...as a sourcebo

This volume explores the fascinating phenomenon of noble death through pagan, Jewish and Christian sources. Today's society is uncomfortable with death, and willingly submitting to a violent and ostentatious death in public is seen as particularly shocking and unusual. Yet classical sources give a different view, with public self-sacrifice often being applauded. The Romans admired a heroic end in the battlefield or the arena, suicide in the tradition of Socrates was some...

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