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By Eliezer Gonzalez

ISBN-10: 3161529448

ISBN-13: 9783161529443

The ideology and imagery within the Passion of Perpetua are mediated seriously by means of conventional Graeco-Roman tradition; specifically, through conventional notions of the afterlife and of the ascent of the soul. This context for realizing the Passion of Perpetua aligns good with the to be had fabric facts, and with the writings of Tertullian, with whose ideology the textual content of Perpetua is in an implicit polemical dialogue.
Eliezer Gonzalez analyzes how the Passion of Perpetua presents us with early literary facts of an atmosphere during which the Graeco-Roman and Christian cults of the useless, together with the cults of the martyrs and saints, seem to be greatly aligned. He additionally indicates that the textual content of the Passion of Perpetua and the writings of Tertullian supply insights into an early level within the polemic among those conceptualisations of the afterlife of the righteous.

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