Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity : Politico-Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Forms of Critical Conversation.
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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 Period -- Part 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 -- Chapter 9 Difference, Opposition, and the Roots of Intolerance in Ancient Philosophical Polemic -- Chapter 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 Greeks -- Chapter 14 Qurʾanic 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 -- 2 Index of Ancient Sources -- 2.1 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.
In 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 world are discussed. The contributions enquire into the boundaries between debate, polemics, and intolerance, and address their manifestations in both philosophy and religion.