The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem
The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem As the site of only a small and obscure Christian population between 135 and 313 CE, Jerusalem witnessed few instances of anti-Christian persecution. At that time,…
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The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem
As the site of only a small and obscure Christian population between 135 and 313 CE, Jerusalem witnessed few instances of anti-Christian persecution. At that time, the city had every incentive to stretch the fame of its few, apostolic martyrs as far as possible-especially the fame of the biblical St. This fact became a source of embarrassment to the city in late antiquity-a period when martyr traditions, relics, and shrines were closely intertwined with local prestige.
What the church lacked in the quantity of its martyrs, it believed it could compensate for in an exclusive, local claim to the figure widely hailed as the Protomartyr, firstborn of the martyrs, and chief of confessors in contemporary sources. Stephen, the figure traditionally regarded as the first Christian martyr (Acts 6-8). This book traces the rise of the cult of Stephen in Jerusalem, exploring such historical episodes
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