Dying for the Faith, Killing for the Faith

Gabriela Signori, PhD (1991), Habilitation (1999), is Professor of Medieval History in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Germany, since 2006. From 2001 – 2006 she was Professor at the Westfaelische Wilhelms University of Muenster. Her main area of research is social history of late medieval towns: law, gender, culture and religion. She continuously publishes several monographs, volumes and papers.

De manière générale, c’est l’histoire de la réception des livres des Maccabées en monde chrétien qui est étudiée ici, et non celle de la réception juive (à une exception près). On ne peut qu’encourager la directrice du volume à envisager une suite à ce bel ouvrage, qui porterait cette fois sur l’histoire de la réception des Maccabées dans le monde juif, de l’Antiquité à nos jours.
Katell Berthelot, Recherches de Science Religieuse, Avril – Juin 2012, Tome 100/2, section Bulletin de Judaïsme Ancien (2), 292-294 pp.

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Note on contributors

Introduction, Gabriela Signori


Antiquity
Martyrdom, Violence, and Immortality: The Origins of a Religious Complex, Jan Assmann
The War of the Hasmoneans, Kai Trampedach
The Veneration of the Maccabean Brothers in Fourth Century Antioch: Religious Competition, Martyrdom, and Innovation, Johannes Hahn
The Cult of the Maccabees in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Albrecht Berger

Middle Ages
The Mother and Seven Sons in Late Antique and Medieval Ashkenazi Judaism: Narrative Transformation and Communal Identity, Daniel Joslyn Siemiatkoski
The Maccabees and the Battle of Antioch, Elizabeth Lapina
Hate Preachers and Religious Warriors: Violence in the Libelli de lite of the Late Eleventh Century, Oliver Münsch
The Maccabees as Role Models in the German Order, Henrike Lähnemann
The Reception of the Books of the Maccabees in the Hussite Reformation, Pavlina Rychterova and Pavel Soukup

Early Modern Period
The Renaissance of the Maccabees: Old Testament Jews, German Humanists, and the Cult of the Saints in Early Modern Cologne, David Collins
On the Path of the Maccabees? The Rhetoric of ‘Holy War’ in the Sermons and Pamphlets of ‘Puritans’ in the Run-up to the English Civil War (1620-1642), Andreas Pecar
“If to fall, for laws, religion, liberty, we fall”: Georg Frideric Handel’s Maccabees Oratorios, Daniel Weidner
The Reception of an Unread Author: Zacharias Werner’s “Mother of the Maccabees”, Gabriel Stoukalov-Pogodin

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