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In: Tyrants, Heroes, Prophets, and Martyrs
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Tyrants, Heroes, Prophets, and Martyrs

Shifting Images from the Past to the Present

Series:  Studies in Theology and Religion, Volume: 39
Cover Tyrants, Heroes, Prophets, and Martyrs
E-Book ISBN:
9789004754867
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
25 Mar 2026
  • Subjects
    • Biblical Studies
      • Biblical Interpretations
      • New Testament & Early Christian Writings
    • Religious Studies
      • History of Religion
    • Theology and World Christianity
      • Biblical Theology
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Frontispiece
Copyright Page
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Terrible Tyrants
Chapter 1 The Tyrants and the Rabbis: Persecution and the Birth of the Rabbinic Movement
Chapter 2 Think You’re Tough? Severity as a Core Value in Josephus
Chapter 3 Josephus on Land Ownership in Judea after 70 CE: The Tribulations and Sense of Jewish War 7.216–217
Chapter 4 From Punished Tyrant to Enchanted King: How King Herod’s Diseases Came to Include an Irish One
Chapter 5 Storytelling and the Struggle against Repression: Hamid Ismailov’s Novel The Devils’ Dance and the Thousand and One Nights
Part 2 Honourable Heroes
Chapter 6 Sister Figures in the Hebrew Bible Revisited: Some Reflections
Chapter 7 Intertextuality between the Book of Judith and the Lindos Chronicle
Chapter 8 Heroes of Patientia: Representing ὑποµονή in 4 Maccabees
Chapter 9 Paul, Politics, and Passions: Beyond Heroics
Part 3 Powerful Prophets
Chapter 10 The Prophet’s Mantle: From Elijah to John the Baptist
Chapter 11 The Shifting Image of Elijah the Prophet in Text and Iconography
Chapter 12 Playing Her Part: Herodias’ Role in the Gospels and Josephus
Part 4 Memorable Martyrs
Chapter 13 Exemplary Death Narratives and the “Parting of the Ways”
Chapter 14 Basilides and Clement on Providence and Persecutions in Hadrianic Alexandria
Chapter 15 The Passion of Dioscorus and the Authenticity of Martyrdom Accounts
Chapter 16 The Heroic Martyr and Prophet of Hermetic Renovation: Giordano Bruno in John Crowley’s Aegypt
Chapter 17 Remembering the Christian Martyrs of Japan
Chapter 18 Jewish Martyrdom and the Problem of Crucifixion
Chapter 19 Das ist der Doktor Zunz! Masculine Virtues and Public Persona in the Nineteenth-Century Wissenschaft des Judentums
Back Matter
Publications of Jan Willem van Henten
Index of Modern Authors

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