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

Intolerance, polemics, and debate in antiquity : : politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation / / edited by George van Kooten, Jacques van Ruiten.

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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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Superior document:Themes in Biblical Narrative; volume 25
TeilnehmendeR:
Kooten, Geurt Hendrik van, 1969-
Ruiten, J. van
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Themes in biblical narrative; v. 25.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 603 pages).
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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.

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