title: Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
author:  Candida R. Moss 
description: "Candida Moss' well written book puts the study of ancient martyrdom on a completely new footing by her questioning of received datings and persuasive insistence on the diversity of the sources, practices, and ideologies of martyrdom. It is a milestone in the field."--Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen<br /><br />"This is a valuable study on a very important topic...by a brilliant young scholar who has taken the trouble to gain mastery of the scholarship...going back to the early modern period, and who is not afraid to go back to the first principles to re-assess the date and context of the sources."--Kate Cooper, University of Manchester<br /><br />"Ancient Christian Martyrdom shows that we didn't know what we thought we knew--but we now know more thanks to her striking illumination of the varied discourses of martyrdom in relation to ancient attitudes about death, suffering, power, and order."--Brad S. Gregory<br /><br />"An insightful new history of early Christian martyrdoms and the social realities that shaped them. Tertullian's famous line that the blood of martyrs was the foundation of the Church takes on new dimensions as Professor Moss carefully traces the complex history of the death of Christian witnesses."--Harold Attridge, Yale University
zlib_text: The Early Martyr Narratives
  
  DIVINATIONS: REREADING LATE ANCIENT RELIGION
  Series Editors: Daniel Boyarin, Virginia Burrus, Derek Krueger
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  university of pennsylvania press
  philadelphia
  The 
  EARLY MARTYR 
  NARRATIVES
  Neither Authentic Accounts 
  nor Forgeries
  Éric Rebillard
  
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  Names: Rebillard, Éric, author. 
  Title: The early martyr narratives : neither authentic accounts 
  nor forgeries / Éric Rebillard. 
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