Christian Martyrdom and the "Dialect of the Holy Scriptures": The Literal, the Allegorical, the Martyrological.

This paper seeks to test a venerable scholarly and popular commonplace: that the ideology of religious martyrdom is based upon and further reflects a literal or even hyper-literal interpretation of Scriptures. Through two test-cases from late antique Christian writings, Tertullian's scorpiace and Or...

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Publicado en:	Biblical Interpretation Vol. 17; no. 1/2; pp. 177 - 207
Autor principal:	Mitchell, Margaret M.
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	Brill Academic Publishers 2009
Materias:	Martyrdom in Christianity Biblical criticism Christianity Death Christian martyrs Suffering & religion Bible > Allegorical interpretations
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