Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds
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- Author: Shmuel Shepkaru, University of Oklahoma
- Date Published: December 2009
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- isbn: 9780521117418
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Spanning the Hellenistic period to the high Middle Ages, this history of Jewish martyrdom challenges the general consensus that martyrdom was an original Hellenisitic Jewish idea. Instead, Jews like Philo and Josephus internalized the idealized Roman concept of voluntary death and presented it as an old Jewish practice. While martyrs and martyrologies intended to show how Judaisim differed from Christianity, they, in fact, reveal a common mindset. Although the medieval martyrological option was played down during the Holocaust, medieval martyrologies are still featured in contemporary Ashkenazic prayers.
Read more- Approaches sources not just as historical documents, but as martyrologies
- Casts light on understanding historical events
- Clearly written and carefully researched
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- Date Published: December 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521117418
- length: 428 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Mythic martyrs
2. Between God and Caesar
3. 'It is written in the law'
4. Byzantine burnt offerings
5. Zarfat
6. Ve Ashkenaz: traditional manifestations
7. Ve Ashkenaz: manifestations of a milieu
8. Singing in the fire
9. Fire from heaven
10. Shifting paradigms
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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