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This work explores the use of athletic (agonistic) metaphors in the extant literature of the earliest Christian communities, particularly exploring athletic metaphors that appear in the writings associated with Paul (both in the undisputed letters such as Corinthians and Philipp…

In this dissertation I demonstrate that the accounts of Christian martyrs under Islam are a significant and neglected source for the study of early Christian apologetics against Islam. I show that these texts are primarily apologetic and that the arguments taken by the texts inc…

The emergence of a self-consciously Christian Roman empire was accompanied by an unprecedented rise of violence carried on between opposed local religious communities. In particular, the Roman world after the reign of Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor, saw the adven…

Bu tezin amacı 15 Temmuz Darbe girişiminde hayatını kaybeden şehitlerin sosyo-ekonomik ve dindarlık durumlarını ortaya koymaktır. Çalışmada şehitlik kavramı, diğer ilahi dinlerde ve İslam'da şehitlik açıklanmıştır. Akabinde Türkiye'de darbeler tarihi ve 15 Temmuz darbe girişimi …

This dissertation, "The Discriminatory Discourses of Self-sacrifice: The State and the Dissident Martyrs in Post-revolutionary Iran," examines the sociopolitical, cultural, and religious transfigurations of martyrdom and self-sacrifice in recent Iranian history. It comparatively…

The Maccabean martyrs were the only group of martyrs acknowledged by both medieval Christians and Jews. While scholars have discussed the Maccabean martyrs in rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity, little has been published concerning them in later periods. No work has systema…