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The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding--the perception of the self as... read more

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Second-century Christian writings present a world of pain, suffering and death.

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  1. Judith Perkins (Author)
 

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