Religious polemics and encounters in late antiquity : : boundaries, conversions, and persuasion / / edited by Timo Nisula, Anni Maria Laato, Pablo Irizar.

Religious Polemics and Encounters in Late Antiquity: Boundaries, Conversions, and Persuasion explores the intricate identity formation and negotiations of early encounters of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). It explores the ever-pressing challenges arising from polemical i...

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Superior document:Studies on the children of Abraham ; 8
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies on the Children of Abraham ; 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Abraham in Justin Martyr's Dialogue
  • Antti Laato
  • Excellent, but How? Abraham in Josephus
  • Erkki Koskenniemi
  • Illusory Polemics: Clement and Irenaeus on the Gnostics
  • Sami Yli-Karjanmaa
  • Justin Martyr as a Polemicist
  • Sven-Olav Back
  • Mimus Religionis , Mimicry, and Deviance: Late Antique Polemic against Religious Others
  • Maijastina Kahlos
  • Tertullian on Christian Converts and Clashes with the Pagan World
  • Anni Maria Laato
  • Worshipping a False Go(o)d: Praeparatio Evangelica 7.2-4 through the Lens of Anti-Epicurean Polemics
  • Siiri Toiviainen Rø
  • Anti-Donatist Polemic and Biblical Hermeneutics: Questions of Ecclesiology in Augustine of Hippo's De Doctrina Christiana
  • Joseph Grabau
  • Talking with the Enemy: Fictitious Polemical Dialogues against the Donatists in Augustine's Sermones Ad Populum
  • Timo Nisula
  • The Challenge of Shame for Philosophical Dialogue in Augustine's Early Writings
  • Eetu Manninen
  • The Grace of Merit and the Merit of Grace: Dialogical Ambiguity in Augustine's Sermons
  • Pablo Irizar
  • The Rhetoric of Appropriation and Dissociation in Evodius' Aduersus Manichaeos : A Case Study of Anti-Manichaean Polemics
  • Aäron Vanspauwen
  • Threat of Conversion in the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam?
  • Serafim Seppälä
  • Index.