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The Other Christs the Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdomimitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Ma

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The Other Christs the Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdomimitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Ma - Moss, Candida R
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Moss begins by tracing the theme of imitating Jesus through suffering in the literature of the Jesus movement and early church and its application in martyrdom literature. She demonstrates the importance of imitating the sufferings of Christ as a practice and ethos in the Jesus movement. She then proceeds to the interpretations of the martyr's death and afterlife, arguing against the dominant theory that the martyr's death was viewed as a sacrifice, and finding that in their post-mortem existence martyrs continue to be ...

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The Other Christs the Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdomimitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Ma 2010, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780199739875

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