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Title Dying for the faith, killing for the faith : Old-Testament faith-warriors (Maccabees 1 and 2) in historical perspective / edited by Gabriela Signori
Published Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages)
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 206
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 206.
Contents List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Antiquity; Martyrdom, Violence, and Immortality: The Origins of a Religious Complex; The War of the Hasmoneans; The Veneration of the Maccabean Brothers in Fourth Century Antioch: Religious Competition, Martyrdom, and Innovation; The Cult of the Maccabees in the Eastern Orthodox Church; Middle Ages; The Mother and Seven Sons in Late Antique and Medieval Ashkenazi Judaism: Narrative Transformation and Communal Identity; The Maccabees and the Battle of Antioch
Hate Preachers and Religious Warriors: Violence in the Libelli de lite of the Late Eleventh CenturyThe Maccabees As Role Models in the German Order; The Reception of the Books of the Maccabees in the Hussite Reformation; Early Modern Period; The Renaissance of the Maccabees: Old Testament Jews, German Humanists, and the Cult of the Saints in Early Modern Cologne; On the Path of the Maccabees? The Rhetoric of 'Holy War' in the Sermons and Pamphlets of 'Puritans' in the Run-up to the English Civil War (1620-1642)
"If to Fall, for Laws, Religion, Liberty, We Fall": Georg Frideric Handel's Maccabee OratoriosThe Reception of an Unread Author: Zacharias Werner's "Mother of the Maccabees"; Index of Names; Index of Biblical Citations
Summary The history of influence of the old testamentary Maccabees is the focus of the essays collected in this book, which extend thematically and chronologically from the cult of martyrs in late antiquity to the time of the modern wars of liberation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible. Maccabees -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History
Bible. Maccabees fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Bible Study Guides.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Signori, Gabriela, 1960-
ISBN 9789004211049
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