Martyr
(μάρτυς “witness”), a saint who gave his or her life for the Christian faith. Despite the obvious similarity between the Christian image of martyrs, on the one hand, and Jewish veneration of the just or certain Greek mythological themes, on the other hand, the cult of martyrs was a new phenomenon developed by the early church. Moreover, the New Testament use of the word “witness” is not directly linked to the later tradition (N. Brox, ... ...
Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.
Please subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code.
For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs, and if you can''t find the answer there, please contact us.
