[PDF.21ss] The Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom

The Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom

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 | #2384858 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2012-02-15 |  2012-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.90 x9.20l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||26 of 31 people found the following review helpful.| A piece of important scholarship|By J. Baden|This book is an important piece of scholarship and is highly respected within the academy, winning a major theological award. The author is hardly attacking the church, as some idiotic reviews have suggested - she is enlightening our understanding of the rhetoric of early Christian martyrdom texts. Unless you think all scholarshi| |Moss's work is brilliant, innovative, compendious, and probing... I would recommend this book heartily not only to students of early Christianity, but to contemporary theologians whose work must take into account the often uncomfortable claims of the mar

Through groundbreaking analysis of early Christian texts, Candida Moss reveals that the words, actions, and deaths of martyrs are modeled on those of Christ. Moss traces this imitation through the literature of the Jesus movement and early church, then examines interpretations of the martyr's death and afterlife. Arguing against the dominant theory that the martyr's death was seen as a sacrifice, Moss finds that beyond death martyrs continue to be assimilated to Christ a...

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