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The Ancient Martyrdom Accounts of Peter and Paul
David L. Eastman
ISBN
9781628370904
Volume
WGRW 39
Status
Available
Price
$62.00
Publication Date
July 2015
Paperback

$62.00

David L. Eastman collects and translates into English more than a dozen ancient Greek, Latin, and Syriac accounts of the martydoms of Peter and Paul. In addition to these accounts, Eastman  includes more than forty references to the martyrdoms from early Christian literature. Introductions and notes make this an essential resource for students and scholars of church history. 

David L. Eastman is Associate Professor of Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University. He s the author of of Paul the Martyr: The Cult of the Apostle in the Latin West (Society of Biblical Literature) and a contributor to the Society of Biblical Literature’s Bible Odyssey web site. He is also co-chair of the Society of Biblical Literature unit Inventing Christianity: Apostolic Fathers, Apologists, and Martyrs.

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