Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism by Daniel Boyarin

Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism

Daniel Boyarin

268 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging reflective medium-paced

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Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that. In the Jewish world of the first century, many sects competed...

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