bloody fiction mucho mad macho's & staggering shit


M. Ammianus had
[more than 1600 years ago]
a typical Greek/Roman
'admiration'
of Christian martyrs because
"they had put their bodies 'on the line' by facing suffering and death!"!
"Roman Honor":
Romans
looked for the contest when one proclaimed one's
Nomen
{"Nomen est Omen"}
or the 'identity'?!
The Romans, for instance, recognozed that the man or woman who proclaimed
Christianus sum
or
Judaios eimi
were doing so as challenges!" Rabbinic texts, on the other hand, counseled Jews to disguise themselves as non-Jews in order to avoid being martyred too.
On the other hand, it is always compelling reading, using both the notion of the
"hidden transcript"
and a
"colonial mimicry,"
it clearly shows how the adoption of the gladiatorial model for the martyrs constitutes a
fundamental subversion of Roman values ~ precisely, that is, what it claims to be. Human history is filled
with bloody fictions, all kinds of mucho mad macho's, tricksters, male & female children of g d & the devil!
This results in quite different readings of this gendering of martyrdom. as well!? The subversiveness of the
martyr is most exquisitely encapsulated in the transformation of feminine submissiveness, including the death blow to the neck for the defeated gladiator, into a moment of triumph according to a hidden trans-cript. Some read those savage miracles as moments of triumph. of recovered honor, for the gladiator him-self: this has interesting implications for a reading of suchlike historic occurrences & present suicidal shit?!

As we have already suggested several times before, however, Rabbi Hanina's own sin, the sin of public exposure of the Torah to the gaze of outsiders, whether Jewish or Roman, is doubled by the sin of his daughter, which then enables us to interpret the father's transgression. She, like the Torah "bride" of her father, reveals herself in that same maketplace. Exposed to the predatory male gaze, ethnicized as both "Roman" and the province of the powerful males of Rome, she does not evade the gaze, but seeks to enhance her object status further. It is important to understand that, in ancient Rome, looking was not passive but active! To look was a challenge. The
spectator
was inspector, judge, and connoisseur!
Having thus rendered herself
a sexual object, she is punished
by being turned into a
whore, the ultimate
depersonalized sexual
subject.
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