Intolerance, polemics, and debate in antiquity : politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation /

In Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity scholars reflect on politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation in the ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and early-Islamic world. They enquire into the boundaries between debate, polemics, and intoleranc...

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Other Authors: Kooten, Geurt Hendrik van, 1969- (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Themes in Biblical Narrative; volume25.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390805.

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Call Number: BL410 .I65 2019

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Illustrations
  • Contributors
  • Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity: Politico-Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Forms of Critical Conversation in the Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and Early Islamic Worlds /
  • George van Kooten and Jacques van Ruiten
  • Discourses within the Ancient Near East and Early Judaism
  • Religious Intolerance in the Ancient Near East /
  • Marjo C. A. Korpel
  • Polemics against Child Sacrifice in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History /
  • Dominik Markl
  • Jubilees 11-12 against the Background of the Polemics against Idols in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature /
  • Jacques van Ruiten
  • Intolerance in Early Judaism: Emic and Etic Descriptions of Jewish Religions in the Second Temple Period /
  • Stefan Beyerle
  • Discourses with Greek and Roman Powers
  • Intolerance and Freedom of Thought in Classical Athens: the Trial of Socrates /
  • Paulin Ismard
  • Antiochus IV Epiphanes's Policy towards the Jews /
  • Peter Franz Mittag
  • Contesting Oikoumenē: Resistance and Locality in Philo's Legatio ad Gaium /
  • Pieter B. Hartog
  • Stranger Danger! Amixia among Judaeans and Others /
  • Steve Mason
  • Discourses between Greeks, Christians, and Jews
  • Difference, Opposition, and the Roots of Intolerance in Ancient Philosophical Polemic /
  • George Boys-Stones
  • John's Counter-Symposium: "The Continuation of Dialogue" in Christianity-A Contrapuntal Reading of John's Gospel and Plato's Symposium /
  • George van Kooten
  • Valentinian Protology and the Philosophical Debate regarding the First Principles /
  • Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
  • Celsus's Jew and Jewish Anti-Christian Counter-Narrative: Evidence of an Important Form of Polemic in Jewish-Christian Disputation /
  • James Carleton Paget
  • The Emperor Julian, Against the Cynic Heraclius (Oration 7): A Polemic about Myths /
  • Robbert M. van den Berg
  • Discourses between Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Greeks
  • Qurʾanic Anti-Jewish Polemics /
  • Reuven Firestone
  • Christian-Muslim (In)tolerance? Islam and Muslims according to Early Christian Arabic Texts /
  • Clare Wilde
  • The Intolerance of Rationalism: the Case of al-Jāḥiz in Ninth-Century Baghdad /
  • Paul L. Heck
  • The Law of Justice (šarīʿat al-ʿadl) and the Law of Grace (šarīʿat al-faḍl) in Medieval Muslim-Christian Polemics /
  • Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella
  • Modern Cinematic Reflection
  • Writing History with Lightning: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance and the Imagined Past /
  • James C. Oleson
  • Back Matter
  • Indices.