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Alexandrian Acts
ancient religious sacrifice
Antiochus IV
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avodah
Avodah Zarah
Avodah Zarah 18a
Avot de-Rabbi Natan
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ben
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Century CE
classical ethics
comparative martyrdom
cross-cultural analysis of noble death
Decius Mus
Diogenes Laertius
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funeral
Funeral Orations
Genesis Rabbah
glorious
historical self-sacrifice
Jan Palach
Jewish Martyrs
King Nebuchadnezzar
Lamentations Rabbah
Midrash Tanhuma
neofiti
Noble Death
orations
persecution narratives
ritual suicide studies
Sifre Deuteronomy
Talmud Bavli
Talmud Yerushalmi
targum
Targum Neofiti
texts
Van Henten
yose
Yose Ben
Young Men
zarah
Product details
- ISBN 9780415138918
- Weight: 279g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. The cross-cultural approach and wide chronological range of this study make it valuable for students and scholars of ancient history, religion and literature.
Jan Willem van Henten holds the chair in New Testament and Hellenistic Jewish literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is director of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER). His publications include Studies in Early Jewish Epigraphy (edited with P. W. van der Horst, 1994) and The Maccabean Martyrs as Saviours of the Jewish People (1997).,
Friedrich Avemarie is a research and teaching assistant at the Institut für antikes Judentum und hellenistische Religionsgeschichte, Evangelisch-theologische Fakultät, University of Tübingen. His most recent publication is Die Taufberichte der Apostelgeschichte: Theologie und Geschichte (1999, 2001).
