LEADER 03603nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910813445503321 005 20241204193125.0 010 $a1-280-77051-1 010 $a9786613681287 010 $a0-300-15466-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300154665 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104166 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24486060 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000685934 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11455119 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000685934 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10717354 035 $a(PQKB)10977630 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420867 035 $a(DE-B1597)485487 035 $a(OCoLC)801411038 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300154665 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420867 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10570993 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL368128 035 $a(OCoLC)923598478 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104166 100 $a20111031d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAncient Christian martyrdom $ediverse practices, theologies, and traditions /$fCandida R. Moss 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 1 $aThe Anchor Yale Bible reference library 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-15465-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Cultural Contexts: The Good Death and the Self- Conscious Sufferer --$t2. Asia Minor: Imitating Christ --$t3. Rome: Contesting Philosophy --$t4. Gaul: The Victors of Vienne and Lyons --$t5 Roman North Africa: Apocalyptic Ascent --$t6. Alexandria: Clement and the True Martyr --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tGeneral Index --$tIndex of Modern Authors --$tIndex of Ancient Sources 330 $aThe importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread of Christianity and rethinks the nature of Christian martyrdom itself. Martyrdom, Moss shows, was not a single idea, theology, or practice: there were diverse perspectives and understandings of what it meant to die for Christ.Beginning with an overview of ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish ideas about death, Moss demonstrates that there were many cultural contexts within which early Christian views of martyrdom were very much at home. She then shows how distinctive and diverging theologies of martyrdom emerged in different ancient congregations. In the process she reexamines the authenticity of early Christian stories about martyrs and calls into question the dominant scholarly narrative about the spread of martyrdom in the ancient world. 410 0$aAnchor Yale Bible reference library. 606 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600 606 $aMartyrdom$xChristianity$xHistory 606 $aPersecution$xHistory$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aMartyrdom$xChristianity$xHistory. 615 0$aPersecution$xHistory 676 $a272/.1 700 $aMoss$b Candida$f1978-$01776637 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813445503321 996 $aAncient Christian martyrdom$94294985 997 $aUNINA