Tyrants, Heroes, Prophets, and Martyrs : Shifting Images from the Past to the Present /
This interdisciplinary Festschrift for Jan Willem van Henten contains nineteen essays that deal with literature from antiquity to the present, covering Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, Hellenism as well as the reception of the Bible in medieval and modern culture. The contributions to this...
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التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
BRILL,
2026.
سلاسل:
Studies in Theology and Religion ;
39.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: BS709.4
- Publications of Jan Willem van Henten
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Jacqueline Borsje and Caroline Vander Stichele
- Part 1 Terrible Tyrants
- 1 The Tyrants and the Rabbis: Persecution and the Birth of the Rabbinic Movement
- Yair Furstenberg
- 2 Think You're Tough? Severity as a Core Value in Josephus
- Steve Mason
- 3 Josephus on Land Ownership in Judea after 7 CE: the Tribulations and Sense of Jewish War 7.216-217
- Daniel R. Schwartz
- 4 From Punished Tyrant to Enchanted King: How King Herod's Diseases Came to Include an Irish One
- Jacqueline Borsje
- 5 Storytelling and the Struggle against Repression: Hamid Ismailov's Novel The Devils ' Dance and the Thousand and One Nights Richard van Leeuwen
- Part 2 Honourable Heroes
- 6 Sister Figures in the Hebrew Bible Revisited: Some Reflections
- Athalya Brenner-Idan
- 7 Intertextuality between the Book of Judith and the Lindos Chronicle
- Barbara Schmitz
- 8 Heroes of Patientia: Representing ὑπομονή in 4 Maccabees
- Silvia Castelli
- 9 Paul, Politics, and Passions: Beyond Heroics
- Jeremy Punt
- Part 3 Powerful Prophets
- 1 The Prophet's Mantle: from Elijah to John the Baptist
- Karel van der Toorn
- 11 The Shifting Image of Elijah the Prophet in Text and Iconography
- Lieve M. Teugels
- 12 Playing Her Part: Herodias' Role in the Gospels and Josephus
- Caroline Vander Stichele
- Part 4 Memorable Martyrs
- 13 Exemplary Death Narratives and the "Parting of the Ways"
- Adele Reinhartz
- 14 Basilides and Clement on Providence and Persecutions in Hadrianic Alexandria
- Dylan M. Burns
- 15 The Passion of Dioscorus and the Authenticity of Martyrdom Accounts
- Jan N. Bremmer
- 16 The Heroic Martyr and Prophet of Hermetic Renovation: Giordano Bruno in John Crowley's Aegypt Wouter J. Hanegraaff
- 17 Remembering the Christian Martyrs of Japan
- Carolina Ivanescu
- 18 Jewish Martyrdom and the Problem of Crucifixion
- Ruben J. van Wingerden
- 19 Das ist der Doktor Zunz! Masculine Virtues and Public Persona in the Nineteenth-Century Wissenschaft des Judentums
- Irene Zwiep
- Index of Modern Authors.