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Author:   George H. van Kooten ,  Jacques van Ruiten
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   25
Weight:   1.091kg
ISBN:  

9789004410671

ISBN 10:   9004410678
Pages:   604
Publication Date:   17 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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List of Illustrations List of 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 1 Religious Intolerance in the Ancient Near East  Marjo C. A. Korpel 2 Polemics against Child Sacrifice in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History  Dominik Markl 3 Jubilees 11–12 against the Background of the Polemics against Idols in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature  Jacques van Ruiten 4 Intolerance in Early Judaism: Emic and Etic Descriptions of Jewish Religions in the Second Temple Period  Stefan Beyerle part 2: Discourses with Greek and Roman Powers 5 Intolerance and Freedom of Thought in Classical Athens: the Trial of Socrates  Paulin Ismard 6 Antiochus IV Epiphanes’s Policy towards the Jews  Peter Franz Mittag 7 Contesting Oikoumenē: Resistance and Locality in Philo’s Legatio ad Gaium  Pieter B. Hartog 8 Stranger Danger! Amixia among Judaeans and Others  Steve Mason part 3: Discourses between Greeks, Christians, and Jews 9 Difference, Opposition, and the Roots of Intolerance in Ancient Philosophical Polemic  George Boys-Stones 10 John’s Counter-Symposium: “The Continuation of Dialogue” in Christianity—A Contrapuntal Reading of John’s Gospel and Plato’s Symposium  George van Kooten 11 Valentinian Protology and the Philosophical Debate regarding the First Principles  Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta 12 Celsus’s Jew and Jewish Anti-Christian Counter-Narrative: Evidence of an Important Form of Polemic in Jewish-Christian Disputation  James Carleton Paget 13 The Emperor Julian, Against the Cynic Heraclius (Oration 7): A Polemic about Myths  Robbert M. van den Berg part 4: Discourses between Muslims, Jews, Christians and Greeks 14 Qurʾanic Anti-Jewish Polemics  Reuven Firestone 15 Christian-Muslim (In)tolerance? Islam and Muslims according to Early Christian Arabic Texts  Clare Wilde 16 The Intolerance of Rationalism: the Case of al-Jāḥiz in Ninth-Century Baghdad  Paul L. Heck 17 The Law of Justice (šarīʿat al-ʿadl) and the Law of Grace (šarīʿat al-faḍl) in Medieval Muslim-Christian Polemics  Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella part 5: Modern Cinematic Reflection 18 Writing History with Lightning: D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance and the Imagined Past  James C. Oleson Index

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George van Kooten, Ph.D. (2001), Leiden University, is the Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. His interests and expertise concern the contextualization of the New Testament writings in their Graeco-Roman context. Jacques van Ruiten, Ph.D. (1990), Catholic University Amsterdam, is Professor of the Reception History of the Bible at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the reception history of biblical texts, especially in early Judaism. Recently, he was visiting fellow at the Pontificio Instituto Biblico, Rome (2016-17). 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.

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