Dying for the faith, killing for the faith : Old-Testament faith-warriors (1 and 2 Maccabees) in historical perspective /
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2012.
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Martyrdom, violence, and immortality : the origins of a religious complex / Jan Assmann
- The war of the Hasmoneans / Kai Trampedach
- The veneration of the Maccabean brothers in fourth century Antioch : religious competition, martyrdom, and innovation / Johannes Hahn
- The cult of the Maccabees in the Eastern Orthodox Church / Albrecht Berger
- The mother and seven sons in late antique and medieval Ashkenazi Judaism : narrative transformation and communal identity / Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
- The Maccabees and the Battle of Antioch / Elizabeth Lapina
- Hate preachers and religious warriors : violence in the Libelli de lite of the late eleventh century / Oliver Münsch
- The Maccabees as role models in the German order / Henrike Lähnemann
- The reception of the books of the Maccabees in the Hussite Reformation / Pavlína Rychterová and Pavel Soukup
- The Renaissance of the Maccabees : Old Testament Jews, German humanists, and the Cult of the Saints in early modern Cologne / David J. Collins
- On the path of the Maccabees? : the rhetoric of 'holy war' in the sermons and pamphlets of 'Puritans' in the run-up to the English Civil War (1620-1642) / Andreas Pečar
- "If to fall, for laws, religion, liberty, we fall" : Georg Frideric Handel's Maccabee oratorios / Daniel Weidner
- The reception of an unread author : Zacharias Werner's "mother of the Maccabees" / Gabriel Stoukalov-Pogodin.