1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911106361003321

Autore

Moss Candida <1978->

Titolo

Ancient Christian martyrdom : diverse practices, theologies, and traditions / / Candida R. Moss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Yale University Press, , 2012

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2025

ISBN

0-300-28816-6

1-280-77051-1

9786613681287

0-300-15466-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Disciplina

272/.1

Soggetti

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Martyrdom - Christianity

Persecution - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Cultural Contexts: The Good Death and the Self- Conscious Sufferer -- 2. Asia Minor: Imitating Christ -- 3. Rome: Contesting Philosophy -- 4. Gaul: The Victors of Vienne and Lyons -- 5 Roman North Africa: Apocalyptic Ascent -- 6. Alexandria: Clement and the True Martyr -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources

Sommario/riassunto

The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread of Christianity and rethinks the nature of Christian martyrdom itself. Martyrdom, Moss shows, was not a single idea, theology, or practice: there were 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 were 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. In the process she reexamines the authenticity of early Christian stories about martyrs and calls into question the dominant scholarly narrative about the spread of martyrdom in the ancient world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911133281503321

Autore

Szabó Zoltán Gendler

Titolo

Problems of compositionality / / Zoltan Gendler Szabo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-86839-6

1-315-05443-4

1-135-71589-0

1-135-71582-3

9781315054438

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Studies in Philosophy

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Semantics

Compositionality (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2000 by Garland Publishing Inc.

Slightly rev. version of the author's thesis--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. The Principle; 1.1 Statement of the Principle; 1.2 Alternative Formulations; 1.3 Parallelism; 1.4 Substitutivity; 1.5 Functionality; 1.6 Summary; 2. Linguistic Semantics; 2.1 Is Semantics Empirical?; 2.2 The First Dogma; 2.3 The Second Dogma; 2.4 Semantics without Epistemology; 2.5 Semantics without Ontology; 2.6 The Third Dogma; 2.7 Summary; 3. The Argument; 3.1 The Argument from Understanding; 3.2 Meaning and Understanding; 3.3 The Strong Principle of Understanding; 3.4 The Modest Principle of Understanding



3.5 Understanding and the Missing Shade of Blue3.6 Summary; 4. Adjectives in Context; 4.1 The Context Thesis; 4.2 The Color of a Painted Leaf; 4.3 Problems with 'Good'; 4.4 Ways of Being Good; 4.5 Varieties of Incompleteness; 4.6 Ways of Being Green?; 4.7 Summary; 5. Descriptions in Context; 5.1 A Parallel; 5.2 Referring and Quantifying Phrases; 5.3 Two Objections to the Quantificational View; 5.4 Replies to Donnellan's Objection; 5.5 Replies to Heim's Objection; 5.6 Methodological Considerations; 5.7 Coreferring Phrases and File-Cards; 5.8 Summary; 6. In Place of a Conclusion; Bibliography

Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a critical discussion of the principle of compositionality, the thesis that the meaning of a complex expression is fully determined by the meanings of its constituents and its structure.  The aim of this book is to clarify what is meant by this principle, to show that its traditional justification is insufficient, and to discuss some of the problems that have to be addressed before a new attempt can be made to justify it.