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L'invention du protomartyr Etienne : sainteté, pouvoir et controverse dans l'Antiquité (Ier-VIe s.)
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ISSN: 25658492 ISBN: 9782503590127 2503590128 9782503590134 Year: 2020 Volume: 21 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Cette étude s’efforce de comprendre de quelles manières la figure biblique d’Étienne (Actes 6-8) s’est transmise et a été reçue dans le christianisme des six premiers siècles de notre ère. Du texte des Actes des apôtres à la translation de ses reliques à Rome en 589, cette enquête tente de saisir les mécanismes conduisant à la construction d’Étienne comme un saint dont le culte fut central dans l’histoire du christianisme. Une attention particulière a été accordée à l’étude des diverses formes que son culte a revêtues après la découverte de ses reliques, en Palestine au ve siècle, et de sa rapide diffusion en Méditerranée orientale et occidentale. À cette fin, l’ensemble des pièces du dossier hagiographique d’Étienne ont été scrutées à la lumière des recherches les plus récentes sur le culte des saints, l’hagiographie et l’histoire de la Palestine dans l’Antiquité tardive. Au terme de cette étude, nous espérons surtout exposer les motivations idéologiques de l’usage des reliques du saint dans un contexte où s’entrecroisent controverses doctrinales, topographie sacrée, antijudaïsme et construction de la mémoire chrétienne.


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The cult of Stephen in Jerusalem : inventing a patron martyr
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ISBN: 9780192846990 019284699X Year: 2022 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press

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"As the site of only a small and obscure Christian population between 135 and 313 CE, Jerusalem witnessed few instances of anti-Christian persecution. 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. 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. Stephen, the figure traditionally regarded as the first Christian martyr (Acts 6-8). 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. This book traces the rise of the cult of Stephen in Jerusalem, exploring such historical episodes as the fabrication of his relics, the construction of a grand basilica in his honour, and the multiplication of the saint's feast days. It argues that local church authorities promoted devotion to Stephen in the fifth century in a conscious attempt to position him as a patron saint for Jerusalem -- that is, a symbolic embodiment of the city's Christian identity and power.


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Geschichte des Gottesvolkes und christliche Identität : eine kanonisch-intertextuelle Auslegung der Stephanusepisode Apg 6,1-8,3
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ISBN: 9783161502279 3161502272 Year: 2010 Volume: 279 Publisher: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck,

The trial of Stephen : the first christian martyr
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ISBN: 0820318558 9780820318554 Year: 1997 Publisher: Athens: University of Georgia press,


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Perfect martyr : the stoning of Stephen and the construction of Christian identity
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ISBN: 9780195393323 0195393325 0199866619 0199924651 9786612768392 0199780528 1282768395 9780199924653 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York: Oxford university press,

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