Many Deaths of Peter and Paul
«...fascinating...»
L. Stephanie Cobb, Church History
The early accounts of one of the most famous scenes in Christian history, the death of Peter, do not present a single narrative of the events, for they do not agree on why Peter requested to die in the precise way that he allegedly did. Les mer
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for Peter's inverted crucifixion is not the only detail on which the sources diverge. In fact, such disagreement can be seen concerning nearly every major narrative point in the martyrdom accounts of Peter and Paul.
The Many Deaths of Peter and Paul shows that the process of smoothing over differences in order to create a master narrative about the deaths of Peter and Paul has distorted the evidence. This process of distortion not only blinds us to differences in perspective among the various authors, but also discourages us from digging deeper into the contexts of those authors to explore why they told the stories of the apostolic deaths differently in their contexts. David L. Eastman
demonstrates that there was never a single, unopposed narrative about the deaths of Peter and Paul. Instead, stories were products of social memory, told and re-told in order to serve the purposes of their authors and their communities. The history of the writing of the many deaths of Peter and Paul is one of
contextualized variety.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198767183
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
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«...fascinating...»
L. Stephanie Cobb, Church History
«The Many Deaths of Peter and Paul is a wonderfully informative and fascinating look at traditions surrounding Peter's and Paul's martyrdoms, and also at how these became Peter and Paul's martyrdom.»
Rafael Rodríguez, Review of Biblical Literature