| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford Early Christian Studies |
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Oxford early Christian studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Unity in death? -- Justifying death -- Dating the deaths -- Locating death and burial -- Confusing Peter and Paul -- The Apostles versus rival Christs |
| Summary |
There was never a single story about the deaths of Peter and Paul, and attempts to create a master, seamless narrative of either death or both deaths misrepresent the ancient evidence. From the earliest literary accounts, authors told the stories differently based upon the needs of their own contexts. The Many Deaths of Peter and Paul examines major narrative elements of the martyrdom accounts and explores the variety concerning whether the apostles died separately or together, why they died, when they died, where they died, and what happened to their bodies after their deaths. It also explores divergent presentations of Peter and Paul themselves and of their primary adversaries, the antichrist figures Nero and Simon Magus. David L. Eastman treats the various martyrdom accounts as products of social memory and thus attempts to explain why the different accounts present the purported same events so differently |
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This study examines major narrative elements of the martyrdom accounts of Peter and Paul and explores the variety concerning whether the apostles died separately or together, why they died, when they died, where they died, and what happened to their bodies after their deaths |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Peter, the Apostle, Saint -- Death and burial
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Paul, the Apostle, Saint -- Death and burial
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| SUBJECT |
Paul, the Apostle, Saint fast |
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Peter, the Apostle, Saint fast |
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Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Hermeneutics
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Bible. Peter -- Hermeneutics
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Bible. Epistles of Paul fast |
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Bible. Peter fast |
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Martyrologies -- History and criticism
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Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism
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Death and burial of a person
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Martyrologies
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Christian literature, Early
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Hermeneutics
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191079931 |
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0191079936 |
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9780191821363 |
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0191821365 |
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