Family Romance of Martyrdom in Second Maccabees
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2 Maccabees
2 Maccabees 7
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Afterlife Traditions
Ancient Implements
ancient Jewish identity
Antiochus IV
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Author_Naomi Janowitz
Category=JBSR
Category=NHC
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Category=QRMF12
Classic Literary Study
cultic transformation
Divine Father
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familial sacrifice analysis
Firstborn Son
Freud's Depiction
Freud’s Depiction
Hasmonean Dynasty
Hasmoneans
Hellenistic Israel
Hellenistic Judaism
Hellenistic Judea
Holy Man
Human Suffering
Investiture Crises
Jewish martyrdom
Jewish martyrs
Johann Gustav Droysen
Junior Male
King Ship
Kingship
Maccabean Martyrs
Maccabean Wars
Maccabees
Martyrdom
Nancy Jay
Passover Sacrifice
political legitimacy theory
Priestly Source
Primal Horde
psychoanalytic interpretation
psychoanalytic theory and religion
religious authority crisis
Sacrificial Crisis
Sacrificial System
Seleucid Israel
Seleucid Judea
Self-sacrificing Death
unconscious fantasy in martyr narratives
Women's Reproductive Powers
Women’s Reproductive Powers
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138206663
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 presents a new family romance that encodes unconscious fantasies of child-bearing fathers and eternal mergers with mothers. This study places the martyr story in the historical context of the Hasmonean struggle for legitimacy in the face of Jewish civil wars, and uses psychoanalytic theories to analyze the unconscious meaning of the martyr-family story.
Naomi Janowitz is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Davis, USA.
