{"product_id":"the-early-martyr-narratives-9780812252606","title":"The Early Martyr Narratives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebillard has thoughtfully and effectively attempted to retranslate, redate, and reshape the way that we think about and use ‘authentic’ accounts of martyrdom in the telling of Christian history… Though brief, \u003ci\u003eThe Early Martyr Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e leaves its reader with much to chew over and digest…[Rebillard’s] arguments have wide-reaching ramifications for text criticism and early Christian history and challenge us to rethink why and in what ways we talk about the past. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003eRebillard’s radical discussion is a significant contribution to the study of early Christian martyrdom. Not every scholar in this field will give up the quest for original versions of the martyr texts, but this volume is a must read for everyone who is interested in early Christian martyrdom. Rebillard has persuasively argued for a fundamentally new and principally literary approach to early Christian martyrdom writings, * Review of Biblical Literature *\u003cbr\u003eA breakthrough work. Éric Rebillard is uniquely and eminently qualified to confront the problem of the dual legacy of the Protestant-Catholic polemics of the Reformation that focused on the 'genuine' status of the accounts of saints and martyrs on the one hand, and of the emerging concerns of 'scientific historiography' of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on the other. * Brent Shaw, author of \u003ci\u003eSacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eAt both the macro and micro level, in respect not only to broad literary questions but also to debates about the transmission and editing of individual texts, \u003ci\u003eThe Early Martyr Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e makes significant contributions to our understanding of the real roles played by these accounts in the life of the Roman empire's Christian communities. * Dennis Trout, author of \u003ci\u003eDamasus of Rome: The Epigraphic Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e *","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405744677207,"sku":"9780812252606","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812252606.jpg?v=1730493461","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-early-martyr-narratives-9780812252606","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}