Persecution myth?
Religion | A new book claims Christian martyrdom was fabricated, but the present sheds light on the past
by Raymond Ibrahim
Posted 5/17/13, 01:00 am
Christian martyrdom under the militant Roman Empire has long been an unquestioned historical fact, but Candida Moss in her new book The Myth of Persecution (HarperOne, March 2013) claims that many of history’s best known narratives of Christian martyrs were entirely fabricated.