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Intolerance, polemics, and debate in antiquity : politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation / edited by George van Kooten, Jacques van Ruiten.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 25.
- Themes in biblical narrative: Jewish and Christian traditions, 1388-3909 ; volume 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religions--Relations--History--To 1500.
- Religions.
- Philosophy--History--To 1500.
- Philosophy.
- Toleration--History--To 1500.
- Toleration.
- Religious tolerance--History--To 1500.
- Religious tolerance.
- Polemics--History--To 1500.
- Polemics.
- Politics and culture--History--To 1500.
- Politics and culture.
- History.
- Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 603 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro; Contents; 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; Part 1 Discourses within the Ancient Near East and Early Judaism; Chapter 1 Religious Intolerance in the Ancient Near East; Chapter 2 Polemics against Child Sacrifice in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History; Chapter 3 Jubilees 11-12 against the Background of the Polemics against Idols in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature
- Chapter 4 Intolerance in Early Judaism: Emic and Etic Descriptions of Jewish Religions in the Second Temple PeriodPart 2 Discourses with Greek and Roman Powers; Chapter 5 Intolerance and Freedom of Thought in Classical Athens: the Trial of Socrates; Chapter 6 Antiochus IV Epiphanes's Policy towards the Jews; Chapter 7 Contesting OikoumeneÌ: Resistance and Locality in Philo's Legatio ad Gaium; Chapter 8 Stranger Danger! Amixia among Judaeans and Others; Part 3 Discourses between Greeks, Christians, and Jews
- Chapter 9 Difference, Opposition, and the Roots of Intolerance in Ancient Philosophical PolemicChapter 10 John's Counter-Symposium: "The Continuation of Dialogue" in Christianity-A Contrapuntal Reading of John's Gospel and Plato's Symposium; Chapter 11 Valentinian Protology and the Philosophical Debate regarding the First Principles; Chapter 12 Celsus's Jew and Jewish Anti-Christian Counter-Narrative: Evidence of an Important Form of Polemic in Jewish-Christian Disputation; Chapter 13 The Emperor Julian, Against the Cynic Heraclius (Oration 7): A Polemic about Myths
- Part 4 Discourses between Muslims, Jews, Christians, and GreeksChapter 14 QurÊ1/4anic Anti-Jewish Polemics; Chapter 15 Christian-Muslim (In)tolerance? Islam and Muslims according to Early Christian Arabic Texts; Chapter 16 The Intolerance of Rationalism: the Case of al-JaÌ%iz in Ninth-Century Baghdad; Chapter 17 The Law of Justice (sÌariÌÊ»at al-Ê»adl)) and the Law of Grace (sÌariÌÊ»at al-fadÌ£l)) in Medieval Muslim-Christian Polemics; Part 5 Modern Cinematic Reflection; Chapter 18 Writing History with Lightning: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance and the Imagined Past; Indices; 1 Index of Modern Authors
- 2 Index of Ancient Sources2.1 Ancient Near-Eastern Sources; 2.2 Graeco-Roman Sources; 2.3 Biblical Sources; 2.3.1 Jewish Scriptures, including LXX; 2.3.2 New Testament Writings; 2.4 Jewish Sources; 2.5 Christian Sources; 2.6 Qur'anic and Islamic Sources; 2.6.1 Qur'an; 2.6.2 Islamic Sources.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 06, 2019).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Intolerance, polemics, and debate in antiquity
- ISBN:
- 9789004411500
- 900441150X
- Publisher Number:
- 99982732062
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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