Is there martyrdom in the Hebrew bible? / Marc Brettler -- Honor and sacredness in the Roman and Christian worlds / Carlin Barton -- Very special death / Carole Straw -- Murder and martyrs in Anglo-Saxon England / Margaret Cormack -- Revaluation of martyrdom in early Islam / Keith Lewinstein -- Contemplative death in Jewish mystical tradition / Lawrence Fine -- Martyrdom in Sunni revivalist thought / Daniel Brown -- Truth and sacrifice / Lindsey Harlan -- Self-sacrifice as truth in India / D. Dennis Hudson.