The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era

Name: The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era
Brand: Routledge
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paperback – July 27, 1995

by Perkins, Judith

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ISBN-13: 9780415127066 ISBN-10: 0415127068

Publisher

Routledge

Binding

paperback

Published

July 27, 1995

Weight

0.9 lbs

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21.60×1.50×13.80 cm

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The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era by Perkins, Judith. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780415127066.

Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important.