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Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity
ISBN: 9780415138901 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 something laudable, and Christians and Jews alike faithfully commemorated their heroes who died during religious persecutions.
Today's society is uncomfortable with death and willingly submitting to a violent and ostentatious death in public is seen as particularly shocking an...
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711,02 zł |
Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity
ISBN: 9780415138918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 something laudable, and Christians and Jews alike faithfully commemorated their heroes who died during religious persecutions....
This volume explores the fascinating phenomenon of noble death through pagan, Jewish and Christian sources. Today's society is uncomfortable with deat...
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194,82 zł |
Jewish Martyrdom in Antiquity: From the Books of Maccabees to the Babylonian Talmud
ISBN: 9789004538252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of all relevant sources concerning Jewish martyrdom in Antiquity. By viewing these narratives together, tracing their development and comparing them to other traditions, the authors seek to explore how Jewish is Jewish martyrdom? To this end, they analyse the impact of the changing social and religious-cultural circumstances and the interactions with Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. This results in the identification of important continuities and discontinuities. Consequently, while political ideals that are prominent in 2 and 4 Maccabees...
This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of all relevant sources concerning Jewish martyrdom in Antiquity. By viewing these narratives together, ...
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985,28 zł |