LEADER 02859nam 22005175 450 001 9910150201903321 005 20200424112023.0 010 $a0-520-96664-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520966642 035 $a(CKB)3710000000939201 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4711977 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001725392 035 $a(DE-B1597)518729 035 $a(OCoLC)962447490 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520966642 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000939201 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDivine Deliverance $ePain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts /$fL. Stephanie Cobb 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (323 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-520-29335-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Bodies in Pain: Ancient and Modern Horizons of Expectation -- $t2. Text and Audience: Activating and Obstructing Expectations -- $t3. Divine Analgesia: Painlessness in a Pain-Filled World -- $t4. Whose Pain? Pain as a Locus of Meaning in Christian Martyr Texts -- $t5. Narratives and Counternarratives: Discourse and Early Christian Martyr Texts -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aDoes martyrdom hurt? The obvious answer to this question is "yes." L. Stephanie Cobb, asserts, however, that early Christian martyr texts respond to this question with an emphatic "no!" Divine Deliverance examines the original martyr texts of the second through fifth centuries, concluding that these narratives in fact seek to demonstrate the Christian martyrs' imperviousness to pain. For these martyrs, God was present with, and within, the martyrs, delivering them from pain. These martyrs' claims not to feel pain define and redefine Christianity in the ancient world: whereas Christians did not deny the reality of their subjection to state violence, they argued that they were not ultimately vulnerable to its painful effects. 606 $aMartyrologies$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristian martyrs in literature 606 $aPain in literature 615 0$aMartyrologies$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristian martyrs in literature. 615 0$aPain in literature. 676 $a272 686 $aBO 2140$qBVB$2rvk 700 $aCobb$b L. Stephanie, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01207731 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150201903321 996 $aDivine Deliverance$92786296 997 $aUNINA