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.
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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Introduction
1. Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament
2. Greece, Rome and Carthage
3. Early Judaism
4. The Death of Jesus
5. The Martyr’s Sacrifice: Case Studies
6. The Models of the Martyr
7. The Meaning of the Martyr’s Sacrifice
Epilogue: The Developments of Martyrology after Constantine
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Index