Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 August 2019
- ISBN 9780198848875
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 234x155x21 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This collection 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 (those executed before 260) and for each martyr examines which text was known to Eusebius or to Augustine.
MoreLong description:
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, Éric 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.
Rebillard is to be commended for such erudite examinations of the textual histories of these narratives and for translations that should become the new standard for these martyr accounts.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
Collecting Martyr Narratives
The Notion of Authenticity
Principles of this Collection
DOSSIERS
Apollonius
Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice
Pionius of Smyrna
Polycarp of Smyrna
Text and Translation of MPol
Text and Translation of LPol
The martyrs of Lyon and Vienne
Marian and James
Cyprian of Carthage
Fructuosus of Tarragona and his companions
Montanus, Lucius, and their companions
Perpetua, Felicity, and her companions
The Scilitan martyrs
Endmatter
Bibliography
Indices
