Dying for the faith, killing for the faith

Dying for the faith, killing for the faith Old-Testament faith-warriors (1 and 2 Maccabees) in historical perspective / [electronic resource] : edited by Gabriela Signori. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 311 p.) : ill. - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 206. 0920-8607 ; . - Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 206. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 M©ơnsch -- The Maccabees as role models in the German order / Henrike L©Þhnemann -- The reception of the books of the Maccabees in the Hussite Reformation / Pavl©Ưna Rychterov©Ł 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 Pe♯‍ar -- "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.

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9789004211049 (electronic book) 9789004211056 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004211055 (hardback : alk. paper)

10.1163/9789004211049

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Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Maccabees--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History.

BS1825.52 / .D95 2012

229/.708303609