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Conversion and narrative : reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic / Ryan Szpiech.
LIBRA BT1117 .S97 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szpiech, Ryan.
- Series:
- Middle Ages series
- The middle ages series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apologetics--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Apologetics.
- History.
- Conversion--Christianity--History--To 1500.
- Conversion.
- Religious biography--History and criticism.
- Religious biography.
- Identification (Religion)--History--To 1500.
- Identification (Religion).
- Christian converts from Judaism--History.
- Christian converts from Judaism.
- Jewish converts from Christianity--History.
- Jewish converts from Christianity.
- Muslim converts from Christianity--History.
- Muslim converts from Christianity.
- Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Judaism.
- Christianity and other religions--Islam.
- Islam.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Islam--Relations--Christianity.
- Conversion--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 From Peripety to Prose: Tracing the Pauline and Augustinian Paradigms 30
- 2 Alteriry and Auctoritas: Reason and the Twelfth-Century Expansion of Authority 59
- 3 In the Shadow of the Khazars: Narrating Conversion to Judaism 92
- 4 A War of Words: Translating Authority in Thirteenth-Century Polemic 121
- 5 The Jargon of Authenticity: Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid and the Paradox of Testimony 143
- 6 The Supersessionist Imperative: Islam and the Historical Drama of Revelation 174.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812244717
- 0812244710
- OCLC:
- 785870940
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