Religious Conflict from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam / / ed. by Wendy Mayer, Bronwen Neil.

Conflict has been an inescapable facet of religion from its very beginnings. This volume offers insight into the mechanisms at play in the centuries from the Jesus-movement’s first attempts to define itself over and against Judaism to the beginnings of Islam. Profiling research by scholars of the Ce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte , 121
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Religious Conflict: Definitions, Problems and Theoretical Approaches
  • Setting the Record Straight at Galatia: Paul’s Narratio (Gal 1:13–2:14) as Response to the Galatian Conflict
  • Early Christian Polemic against Jews and the Persecution of Christians in Rome by Nero
  • The Use of Isaiah 28:11–12 in 1 Corinthians 14:21
  • Conflict in the Canon: The Pauline Literature and the Gospel of Matthew
  • Rewriting: The Path from Apocryphal to Heretical
  • Inter-City Conflict in the Story of St Michael of Chonai
  • John Chrysostom and the Anomoeans: Shaping an Antiochene Perspective on Christology
  • Media Manipulation as a Tool in Religious Conflict: Controlling the Narrative Surrounding the Deposition of John Chrysostom
  • Zosimus and the Gallic Churches
  • Religious Conflict between Antioch and Alexandria c. 565–630 CE
  • Christian-Jewish Conflict in the Light of Heraclius’ Forced Conversions and the Beginning of Islam
  • The Earliest Greek Understandings of Islam: John of Damascus and Theophanes the Confessor
  • Muhammad the Eschatological Prophet
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Names and Places
  • General Index