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 | #1468542 in Books |  Friedr Avemarie |  2002-03-24 |  2002-02-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.50 x5.50l,.61 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

 | Martyrdom and Noble Death Selected Texts from Graeco Roman Jewish and Christian Antiquity

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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 some...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity (Context of Early Christianity)   |  Friedrich Avemarie, Jan Willem van Henten.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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