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Isaac, Iphigeneia, Ignatius: Martyrdom and Human Sacrifice
Monika Pesthy-Simon
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Description for Isaac, Iphigeneia, Ignatius: Martyrdom and Human Sacrifice
Hardcover. The author considers martyrdom as a voluntary human sacrifice. Pesthy argues that all the peoples in the environment in which Christianity came into being are characterized by an ambiguous and often hypocritical attitude toward human sacrifice. In modern Christianity, martyrs are real sacrifices, not symbolical ones. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
What is the meaning of the martyr’s sacrifice? Is it true that the martyr imitates Christ? After the “one and eternal” sacrifice of Jesus why are from time to time new (and often quite numerous) sacrifices necessary? What is the underlying concept concerning the divinity? How do these ideas survive in present times? These are the kind of questions behind the inquiries in this monograph. The author investigates martyrdom as a (voluntary) human sacrifice and wishes to demonstrate how human sacrifice has been turned into martyrdom. The two emblematic figures of this transformation are Iphigeneia and Isaac. Pesthy argues that ... Read more
What is the meaning of the martyr’s sacrifice? Is it true that the martyr imitates Christ? After the “one and eternal” sacrifice of Jesus why are from time to time new (and often quite numerous) sacrifices necessary? What is the underlying concept concerning the divinity? How do these ideas survive in present times? These are the kind of questions behind the inquiries in this monograph. The author investigates martyrdom as a (voluntary) human sacrifice and wishes to demonstrate how human sacrifice has been turned into martyrdom. The two emblematic figures of this transformation are Iphigeneia and Isaac. Pesthy argues that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ceu LLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789633861639
SKU
V9789633861639
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About Monika Pesthy-Simon
Monika Pesthy-Simon is an independent scholar, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her main fields of research are early Judaism and early Christianity, apocrifs and intertestamental literature.
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