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Perfect martyr : the stoning of Stephen and the construction of Christian identity / Shelly Matthews.
LIBRA BS2520.S8 M38 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, Shelly.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stephen, Saint, -approximately 36.
- Stephen.
- Bible. Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Acts.
- Identification (Religion).
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 226 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Situating Acts
- Perfect martyr: situating Stephen within Acts
- Disrupting Acts: reading Stephen alongside James, the brother of Jesus
- "Father, forgive them": the place of the perfect prayer in the construction of Christian identity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780195393323
- 0195393325
- OCLC:
- 463454504
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