TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avemarie, Friedrich
AU  - Henten, Jan Willem van
AU  - Fursṭenberg, Yaʾir
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Jewish martyrdom in antiquity: from the books of Maccabees to the Babylonian Talmud
T3  - Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum volume 17
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Martyrdom
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Suicide
KW  - Religious aspects
AB  - This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of all relevant sources concerning Jewish martyrdom in Antiquity. By viewing these narratives together, tracing their development and comparing them to other traditions, the authors seek to explore how Jewish is Jewish martyrdom? To this end, they analyse the impact of the changing social and religious-cultural circumstances and the interactions with Graeco-Roman and Christian traditions. This results in the identification of important continuities and discontinuities. Consequently, while political ideals that are prominent in 2 and 4 Maccabees are remarkably absent from rabbinic sources, the latter reveal a growing awareness of Christian motifs and discourse
SN  - 9789004538269
UR  - https://brill.com/view/title/64260
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004538269
DO  - 10.1163/9789004538269
LA  - English
N1  - by Friedrich Avemarie, Jan Willem van Henten, Yair Furstenberg
ID  - 1858268419
ER  -