TY - GEN T1 - Ancient Christian martyrdom : diverse practices, theologies, and traditions T2 - Anchor Yale Bible reference library. A1 - Moss, Candida, 1978- LA - English PP - New Haven Conn. PB - Yale University Press YR - 2012 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn801411038 AB - The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread of Christianity and rethinks the nature of Christian martyrdom itself. Martyrdom, Moss shows, was not a single idea, theology, or practice: there were diverse perspectives and understandings of what it meant to die for Christ. Beginning with an overview of ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish ideas about death, Moss demonstrates that there were many cultural contexts within which early Christian views of martyrdom were very much at home. She then shows how distinctive and diverging theologies of martyrdom emerged in different ancient congregations. In the process she reexamines the authenticity of early Christian stories about martyrs and calls into question the dominant scholarly narrative about the spread of martyrdom in the ancient world. OP - 256 CN - BR1604.23 .M67 2012eb SN - 9780300154665 SN - 0300154666 SN - 9780300154658 SN - 0300154658 SN - 9781280770517 SN - 1280770511 KW - Persecution : History : Early church, ca. 30-600. KW - Church history : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. KW - Martyrdom : Christianity : History. KW - Martyre : Christianisme : Histoire. KW - Persécutions : Histoire : ca 30-600 (Église primitive) KW - Église : Histoire : ca 30-600 (Église primitive) KW - RELIGION : History. KW - RELIGION : Christian Church : History. KW - Church history : Primitive and early church KW - Martyrdom : Christianity KW - Persecution : Early church KW - Märtyrer KW - Christenverfolgung KW - Frühchristentum KW - 30-600 KW - History ER -