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The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to early Christians.This study crosses the boundaries between ancient history and the study of early Christianity, seeing Christian representati No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)272.1Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Persecutions Apostolic church by imperial Rome (1st-4th century)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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