Suffering Self and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms

Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms

Suffering Self

Name: Suffering Self
Price: 43.21 GBP
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Author: Judith Perkins
ISBN: 9780415127066

Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era

by Judith Perkins

Paperback
264 pages
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
13.8 x 21.4 x 2 cm

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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 representation in the context of the Greco-Roman world. She draws parallels with suffering heroines in Greek novels and in martyr acts and examines representations in medical and philosophical texts. Judith Perkins' controversial study is important reading for all those interested in ancient society, or in the history of Christianity.