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The Family Romance of Martyrdom in Second Maccabees
1st Edition
By Naomi Janowitz
June 07, 2019
Centering on the first extant martyr story (2 Maccabees 7), this study explores the "autonomous value" of martyrdom. The story of a mother and her seven sons who die under the torture of the Greek king Antiochus displaces the long-problematic Temple sacrificial cult with new cultic practices, and ...