Book contents
- Religious Violence in the Ancient World
- Religious Violence in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- A Note on Abbreviations
- General Introduction
- Part I Methodology
- Chapter 1 Sacred Prefigurations of Violence: Religious Communities in Situations of Conflict
- Chapter 2 Priestesses, Pogroms and Persecutions: Religious Violence in Antiquity in a Diachronic Perspective
- Part II Religious Violence in the Graeco-Roman World
- Part III Religious Violence in Late Antiquity
- Index of Sources
- General Index
Chapter 2 - Priestesses, Pogroms and Persecutions: Religious Violence in Antiquity in a Diachronic Perspective
from Part I - Methodology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- Religious Violence in the Ancient World
- Religious Violence in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- A Note on Abbreviations
- General Introduction
- Part I Methodology
- Chapter 1 Sacred Prefigurations of Violence: Religious Communities in Situations of Conflict
- Chapter 2 Priestesses, Pogroms and Persecutions: Religious Violence in Antiquity in a Diachronic Perspective
- Part II Religious Violence in the Graeco-Roman World
- Part III Religious Violence in Late Antiquity
- Index of Sources
- General Index
Summary
Let us now fast forward. On 12 February 2015, Islamic State released a video showing the beheading of twenty Egyptian Coptic Christians and one Ghanaian – all migrant workers – who had been kidnapped in the city of Sirte, in Libya, to ‘avenge the [alleged] kidnapping of Muslim women by the Egyptian Coptic Church’. Less than a week later, on 21 February 2015, Pope Tawadros III, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, announced that the twenty-one murdered Copts would be commemorated as martyr saints on 8 Amshir of the Coptic calendar, which is 15 February of the Gregorian calendar.2
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- Religious Violence in the Ancient WorldFrom Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, pp. 46 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020