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Author : J. A. Robinson
Release : 1974-01-01
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Book Synopsis The Passion of S. Perpetua by : J. A. Robinson
Download or read book The Passion of S. Perpetua written by J. A. Robinson. This book was released on 1974-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Armitage Robinson
Release : 1967
Genre : Christian martyrs
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Book Synopsis The Passion of S. Perpetua by : Joseph Armitage Robinson
Download or read book The Passion of S. Perpetua written by Joseph Armitage Robinson. This book was released on 1967. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saint Perpetua
Release : 1927
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Author : Mia Donato
Release : 2021-05-19
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Book Synopsis The Passion of Perpetua by : Mia Donato
Download or read book The Passion of Perpetua written by Mia Donato. This book was released on 2021-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perpetua was a young African woman who fell in with an obscure religious sect that must have seemed to outsiders like a kind of death-cult. She was arrested around 203 CE along with several other practitioners on unspecified charges. Given the opportunity to renounce the group and walk free, Perpetua chose execution in the arena. Perpetua was a Christian. The Passi?, an account of her death, includes Perpetua's prison diary, in which the already-radicalized woman describes her progressive alienation from her family. Perpetua was a prophet and a leader in her sect, and her narrative describes a series of visions: a ladder rigged with lacerating blades and tearing hooks, the torment of a family member, and a final climactic vision in which she becomes a man and fights hand-to-hand against the devil. Transgressive, radical, and determined to face down a violent death: Perpetua is a formidable figure. This edition aims to enable intermediate-level students of Latin to read the text in its original language. A substantial introduction provides background on the woman, her text, and her times. The Latin text includes a running glossary and grammatical commentary on every page.
Author : Thomas J. Heffernan
Release : 2012-06-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Passio SS. Perpetuae Et Felicitatis Engl by : Thomas J. Heffernan
Download or read book Passio SS. Perpetuae Et Felicitatis Engl written by Thomas J. Heffernan. This book was released on 2012-06-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most widely read and studied texts composed in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, a young woman of the elite classes who was martyred in March of the year 202 or 203 C.E. in Carthage, as part of a civic celebration honoring Caesar Geta. She was well-married and had recently become the mother of a baby son, but despite her advantages, she refused to recant her faith when she was arrested with other recent converts to Christianity. Imprisoned with her was her pregnant slave Felicity. Perpetua's steadfastness in her belief led to her martyrdom in the amphitheater. A description of the heroic deaths of both women, and the autobiography of one of the leaders of the Christian community, Saturus, is woven into Perpetua's diary by an anonymous editor, who tells us that, as they died, Perpetua, Felicity, and the other condemned Christians bid farewell with a kiss of peace.This unique and precious text survives in one Greek and in nine Latin manuscript versions. Thomas Heffernan's new study contains much that has never been done before, including a prosopography of all the individuals mentioned in the Passion, a new English translation and the first detailed historical commentary in English on the entire narrative of the Passion. It also includes a newly edited version of the Latin text based on all the extant manuscripts and - rarer still - the Greek text. He concludes the book with a complete codicological description of all of the known manuscripts and thorough scholarly indices of the text itself. Perpetua's prison diary is a revered text of early Christianity, and Heffernan's new translation and commentary brings unprecedented scholarly resources to the much-loved Passion.
