{"product_id":"let-us-die-that-we-pauline-allen-9780415240413","title":"'Let us die that we may live': Greek homilies on Christian Martyrs from Asia Minor, Palestine and Syria c.350-c.450 AD","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents fresh, lively translations of fourteen such homilies, the majority for the first time in English. The homilies were delivered in some of the main cities of the Greek East of the later Roman Empire, by well-known figures such as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom, as well as the equally gifted preachers Asterius of Amasea and Hesychius of Jerusalem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Let us die that we may live'\u003c\/em\u003e offers an approachable, surprising, and not always reverent insight into the life of the Early Church. It reveals the full importance of the martyr homily in terms of style, treatment of its subject, and social and liturgical issues, in a way that will be useful across disciplines such as theology, classical studies, and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pauline Allen,Boudewijn Dehandschutter,Johan Leemans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415240417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415240413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.40w x 0.77d","brand":"Pauline Allen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136060371199,"sku":"9780415240413","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f341954-2315-485f-b0f1-02acd0afd471.jpg?v=1770160248","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/let-us-die-that-we-pauline-allen-9780415240413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}