Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
Shmuel Shepkaru
Christian Memories of the Maccabean Martyrs. New York, ny: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii + 249 pp. ISBN: 978-0230602793.In Martyrs, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski examines how late-antique and medieval writers from eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, northwestern Europe employed martyrological stories Eleazar mother seven sons Second Fourth Maccabees to address theological, social, political challenges their time. Since assumes that imperial colonial forces shaped these challenges, he incorporates postcolonial theories as a “heuristic point departure” (6).According
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