Ihab Saloul is Professor of Heritage, Memory and Narrative, founder and Academic Director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), University of Amsterdam. His interests include heritage and memory studies, cultural studies, narrative theory and semiotics, postcolonialism, aesthetics, and diaspora and exile in contemporary cultural thought in Europe and beyond. His latest publications include W.G. Sebald’s Artistic Legacies: Memory, Word and Image (2023), and Diasporic Heritage and Identity (2023). Prof. Jan Willem van Henten is Professor of Religion (in particular Ancient Judaism and Ancient Christianity) at the University of Amsterdam, and extra-ordinary Professor of Old and New Testament at Stellenbosch University (South-Africa).

• Introduction Jan Willem van Henten and Ihab Saloul 1. Interaction of Canon and History: Some Assumptions Tobias Nicklas 2. The Changing Worlds of the Ten Rabbinic Martyrs Yair Furstenberg 3. 'Who Were the Maccabees?': The Maccabean Martyrs and Performances on Christian Difference Jennifer Knust 4. Perpetual Contest Mieke Bal 5. 'Martyrs of Love': Genesis, Development and Twentieth Century Political Applica-tion of a Sufi Concept Asghar Seyed-Gohrab 6. Commemorating World War 1 Soldiers as Martyrs Jan Willem van Henten 7. The Scarecrow Christ: The Murder of Matthew Shepard and the Making of an American Culture Wars Martyr Paul Middleton 8. Icons of Revolutionary Upheaval: Arab Spring Martyrs Friederike Pannewick 9. Yesterday's Heroes? Canonisation of Anti-Apartheid Heroes in South Africa Jeremy Punt 10. The Martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers in Transformation: From Syriac Christianity to the Qur'an and to the Dutch-Iranian Writer Kader Abdolah Marcel Poorthuis 11. 'Female Martyrdom Operations': Gender and Identity Politics in Palestine Ihab Saloul 12. Hollywood Action Hero Martyrs in 'Mad Max Fury Road' Laura Copier Index