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Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs (Hardcover)
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Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Texts
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Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs provides a
collection, with facing-page translations, of Greek and Latin
Christian martyr narratives dating from the first four centuries
CE. While Herbert Musurillo's authoritative collection The Acts of
the Martyrs (1972) aimed to gather the most 'authentic' and
'reliable' accounts of early Christian martyrdom, Eric Rebillard
argues that modern scholarship instead calls for texts which attest
to the contexts in which the memories of the martyrs were
constructed. As such, this extensive volume provides a textual
basis for the study of martyr narratives without making assumptions
about their date of composition or their authenticity. It focuses
on the ancient martyrs executed before 260, and examines which of
their texts was known to Eusebius or to Augustine. Introductions
describe the hagiographical dossier of each martyr with crucial
information about the manuscript tradition of the different texts
and provide a terminus ante quem for their composition based only
on external evidence.
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