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Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts
L. Stephanie Professor Cobb
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Description for Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts
Hardback. Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty. L. Stephanie Cobb explores the double embodiment of "male" and "female" gender ideals in these figures, connecting them to Greco-Roman virtues and the construction of Christian group identities. Both male and female martyrs conducted their battles in the amphitheater, a masculine environment that enabled the divine combatants to showcase their strength, virility, and volition. These Christian martyr accounts also illustrated masculinity through the language ... Read more
At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty. L. Stephanie Cobb explores the double embodiment of "male" and "female" gender ideals in these figures, connecting them to Greco-Roman virtues and the construction of Christian group identities. Both male and female martyrs conducted their battles in the amphitheater, a masculine environment that enabled the divine combatants to showcase their strength, virility, and volition. These Christian martyr accounts also illustrated masculinity through the language ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Gender, Theory, and Religion
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231144988
SKU
V9780231144988
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About L. Stephanie Professor Cobb
L. Stephanie Cobb is assistant professor of New Testament and Early Christianity in the Religion Department at Hofstra University.
Reviews for Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts
Dying to Be Men successfully conveys the surprising and subversive ways early Christian martyrologies appropriated the notion of masculinity... Recommended. Choice Overall, Dying to be Men is a well-written and worthwhile contribution to the growing number of studies on the function of gender in early Christian texts.
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Colleen M. Conway Church History This book is to be commended for ... Read more