The Family Romance of Martyrdom in Second Maccabees

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Naomi Janowitz

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Focus on Biblical Studies

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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.

Author Biography:

Naomi Janowitz is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Davis, USA.

Release date NZ

February 1st, 2017

Author

Naomi Janowitz

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

110

Series

Routledge Focus on Biblical Studies

ISBN-13

9781138206663

Product ID

26032674

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