03603nam 2200673Ia 450 991081344550332120241204193125.01-280-77051-197866136812870-300-15466-610.12987/9780300154665(CKB)2550000000104166(StDuBDS)AH24486060(SSID)ssj0000685934(PQKBManifestationID)11455119(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000685934(PQKBWorkID)10717354(PQKB)10977630(MiAaPQ)EBC3420867(DE-B1597)485487(OCoLC)801411038(DE-B1597)9780300154665(Au-PeEL)EBL3420867(CaPaEBR)ebr10570993(CaONFJC)MIL368128(OCoLC)923598478(EXLCZ)99255000000010416620111031d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrAncient Christian martyrdom diverse practices, theologies, and traditions /Candida R. Moss1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20121 online resource (256 p.)The Anchor Yale Bible reference libraryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-15465-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 SourcesThe 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.Anchor Yale Bible reference library.Church historyPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600MartyrdomChristianityHistoryPersecutionHistoryEarly church, ca. 30-600Church historyMartyrdomChristianityHistory.PersecutionHistory272/.1Moss Candida1978-1776637MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813445503321Ancient Christian martyrdom4294985UNINA