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The Fatal Obedience

The Family Romance of Maccabean Martyrdom [Hardback]

by Naomi Janowitz

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Taylor & Francis Ltd

    • Published

      December 2016

    • Weight

      234g

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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.

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    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Taylor & Francis Ltd

    • Published

      December 2016

    • Weight

      234g

    • Page Count

      136

    • Dimensions

      143 x 219 x 13 mm

    • ISBN

      9781138206663

    • ISBN-10

      1138206660

    • Eden Code

      4487813

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    • ISBN: 9781138206663

    • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

    • Release Date: December 2016

    • Weight: 234g

    • Dimensions: 143 x 219 x 13 mm

    • Eden Code: 4487813


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