| The Family Romance of Martyrdom in Second Maccabees Contributor(s): Janowitz, Naomi (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367182696 ISBN-13: 9780367182694 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - Religion | Biblical Studies - Bible Study Guides |
| Dewey: 229.730 |
| Series: Routledge Focus on Biblical Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.30 lbs) 110 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Centering on the first extant martyr story (2 Maccabees 7), this study explores the autonomous value of martyrdom. The story of a mother and her seven sons who die under the torture of the Greek king Antiochus displaces the long-problematic Temple sacrificial cult with new cultic practices, and presents a new family romance that encodes unconscious fantasies of child-bearing fathers and eternal mergers with mothers. This study places the martyr story in the historical context of the Hasmonean struggle for legitimacy in the face of Jewish civil wars, and uses psychoanalytic theories to analyze the unconscious meaning of the martyr-family story. |