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Divine deliverance : pain and painlessness in early Christian martyr texts /
"The author's readings of early Christian martyr texts suggest that Christians found the suffering self a useful discourse by which to construct their identities, distinguish their teachings, refute antagonistic claims, and retain believers. The author shows that in these texts, suffering...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bodies in pain: ancient and modern horizons of expectation
- Text and audience: activating and obstructing expectations
- Divine analgesia: painlessness in a pain-filled world
- Whose pain? pain as a locus of meaning in Christian martyr texts
- Narratives and counternarratives: discourse and early Christian martyr texts.