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1 online resource (xii, 603 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Themes in biblical narrative: Jewish and Christian traditions,
1388-3909 ;
volume 25
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Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 25.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
"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 intolerance, and address their manifestations in both philosophy and religion. This cross-cultural and inclusive approach shows that debate and polemics are not so different as often assumed, since polemics may also indicate that ultimate values are at stake. Polemics can also have a positive effect, stimulating further cultural development. Intolerance is more straightforwardly negative. Religious intolerance is often a justification for politics, but also elite rationalism can become totalitarian. The volume also highlights the importance of the fluency of minorities in the dominant discourses and of their ability to develop contrapuntal lines of thought within a common cultural discourse. Contributors are: Robbert van den Berg, Stefan Beyerle, George Boys-Stones, Reuven Firestone, Pieter B. Hartog, Paul Heck, Paulin Ismard, George van Kooten, Marjo C. Korpel, Dominik Markl, Steve Mason, Peter Franz Mittag, James C. Oleson, James Carleton Paget, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Jacques van Ruiten, Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella, Clare Wilde"-- Provided by publisher. |
| 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 |
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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 Oikoumenē: 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 |
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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 |
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Part 4 Discourses between Muslims, Jews, Christians, and GreeksChapter 14 Qurʼanic 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-Jāḥiz in Ninth-Century Baghdad; Chapter 17 The Law of Justice (šarīʿat al-ʿadl) and the Law of Grace (šarīʿat al-faḍl) 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 |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religions -- Relations -- History -- To 1500.
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Religions -- Relations. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Philosophy -- History -- To 1500.
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Toleration. |
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Philosophy. |
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Toleration -- History -- To 1500.
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Religious tolerance. |
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Religious tolerance -- History -- To 1500.
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Polemics. |
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Polemics -- History -- To 1500.
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Politics and culture -- History -- To 1500.
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Politics and culture. |
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Interfaith relations. |
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Religions. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Kooten, Geurt Hendrik van, 1969- editor.
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Ruiten, J. van (Jacques), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Intolerance, polemics, and debate in antiquity. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019 9789004410671 (DLC) 2019025591 |
| ISBN |
900441150X (electronic book) |
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9789004411500 (electronic book) |
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9789004410671 (hardcover) |
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