Divine Deliverance

L. Stephanie Cobb is the George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is also author of Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts.

• Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Bodies in Pain: Ancient and Modern Horizons of Expectation 2. Text and Audience: Activating and Obstructing Expectations 3. Divine Analgesia: Painlessness in a Pain-Filled World 4. Whose Pain? Pain as a Locus of Meaning in Christian Martyr Texts 5. Narratives and Counternarratives: Discourse and Early Christian Martyr Texts Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

"This excellent book will encourage a re-evaluation of early Christian martyr texts so that more attention is paid to the theological, christological, and eschatological commitments contained therein."