The Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom. By Candida R. Moss
There is a lot in this book which repays attention. But the argument as a whole is undermined by flaws in presentation. The really glaring one should have been picked up at the editorial stage. The author is not a competent Latinist, or she would never have referred to the ‘martyrdom of Nicephori’ (...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 707-709 |
| Review of: | The other Christs (Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Hammond, Carolyn)
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| Summary: | There is a lot in this book which repays attention. But the argument as a whole is undermined by flaws in presentation. The really glaring one should have been picked up at the editorial stage. The author is not a competent Latinist, or she would never have referred to the ‘martyrdom of Nicephori’ (repeatedly), or the ‘Historiae Ecclessiae’ of Eusebius (p. 177), or the ‘contra Faustus’ of Augustine (p. 166), or the de principis of Origen (p. 162), inter alia. Perhaps the repeated misquotation of Tertullian is for the same reason—at p. 104 semen est sanguis Christianorum, ‘the blood of Christians is seed’ appears as ‘the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church’ (and it is Apology 50, not 1). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt103 |