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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 206.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 311 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9789004211049 (electronic book)
  • 9789004211056 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004211055 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 229/.708303609 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1825.52 .D95 2012
Online resources:
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 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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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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