The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Judith PerkinsTheme:Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)Publish date:7/27/1995Pages:264
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415127066ISBN-10:0415127068UPC:9780415127066Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, AncientSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.377Product ID:SCAXQ7X985
Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415127066ISBN-10:0415127068UPC:9780415127066Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, AncientSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.377Product ID:SCAXQ7X985
Judith Perkins is Professor of Classics and Humanities at Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut.
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