Dying for the faith, killing for the faith : Old-Testament faith-warriors (1 and 2 Maccabees) in historical perspective / edited by Gabriela Signori.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Signori, Gabriela, 1960-

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 206.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Maccabees--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

Bible.

Bible. Maccabees.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

"Killing for the faith, dying for the faith" the message of the Books of Maccabees is martial. The circumstances in which the Maccabeean literature emerged are complex; even more com plex is the history of its influence, the Wirkungsgeschichte in the sense Hans-Georg Gadamer has given to the term. This history stands at the center of the essays collected in this volume, essays, which extend thematically and chronologically from the cult of martyrs in late antiquity to the time of the modern wars of liberation.

Contents:

Martyrdom, violence, and immortality : the origins of a religious complex / Jan Assmann

The war of the Hasmoneans / Kai Trampedach

The veneration of the Maccabean brothers in fourth century Antioch : religious competition, martyrdom, and innovation / Johannes Hahn

The cult of the Maccabees in the Eastern Orthodox Church / Albrecht Berger

The mother and seven sons in late antique and medieval Ashkenazi Judaism : narrative transformation and communal identity / Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski

The Maccabees and the Battle of Antioch / Elizabeth Lapina

Hate preachers and religious warriors : violence in the Libelli de lite of the late eleventh century / Oliver Münsch

The Maccabees as role models in the German order / Henrike Lähnemann

The reception of the books of the Maccabees in the Hussite Reformation / Pavlína Rychterová and Pavel Soukup

The Renaissance of the Maccabees : Old Testament Jews, German humanists, and the Cult of the Saints in early modern Cologne / David J. Collins

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) / Andreas Pečar

"If to fall, for laws, religion, liberty, we fall" : Georg Frideric Handel's Maccabee oratorios / Daniel Weidner

The reception of an unread author : Zacharias Werner's "mother of the Maccabees" / Gabriel Stoukalov-Pogodin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004211056

9004211055

OCLC:

738347768