The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in
the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring
interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a
radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second
centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread
of Christianity and rethinks the nature of Christian martyrdom
itself. Martyrdom, Moss shows, was not a single idea, theology, or
practice: there were diverse perspectives and understandings of
what it meant to die for Christ.
Beginning with an overview of ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish
ideas about death, Moss demonstrates that there were many cultural
contexts within which early Christian views of martyrdom were very
much at home. She then shows how distinctive and diverging
theologies of martyrdom emerged in different ancient congregations.
In the process she reexamines the authenticity of early Christian
stories about martyrs and calls into question the dominant
scholarly narrative about the spread of martyrdom in the ancient
world.
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