1st Edition
Isaac, Iphigeneia, and Ignatius Martyrdom and Human Sacrifice
By Monika Pesthy-Simon
Copyright 2017
260 Pages
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Central European University Press
What is the meaning of the martyr’s sacrifice? Is it true that the martyr imitates Christ? After the “one and eternal” sacrifice of Jesus why are from time to time new (and often quite numerous) sacrifices necessary? What is the underlying concept concerning the divinity? How do these ideas survive in present times? These are the kind of questions behind the inquiries in this monograph. The... Read more
Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction, 1. Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament, 2. Greece, Rome and Carthage, 3. Early Judaism, 4. The Death of Jesus, 5. The Martyr's Sacrifice: Case Studies, 6. The Models of the Martyr, 7. The Meaning of the Martyr's Sacrifice, Epilogue: The Developments of Martyrology after Constantine, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Monika Pesthy-Simon is an independent scholar, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her main fields of research are early Judaism and early Christianity, apocrifs and intertestamental literature.
