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Early Christian Martyrdom

In Our Time: Religion

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What's the Story of the Abgar Correspondence?

Eusebius is also the first documentary historian, which is kind of amazing. He's working with texts and documents, but what he's very, very good at doing is massaging those so the way he frames them or starts his quotations. The correspondence is gong o be important for the martyrs. It allows him to sort of replace the low tus carpenter with an elite correspondent of kings. But here is why this is important for martyrs, because, as candida said earlier, there is this phenomenon of imitatio christi. So the martyrs are in some sense imitating the death of jesus.

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