CONTENTS

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

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