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Critique and apologetics : Jews, Christians and Pagans in antiquity

Title
Critique and apologetics : Jews, Christians and Pagans in antiquity / Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Jörg Ulrich, David Brakke (eds.).
Publication
Frankfurt : Peter Lang, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Jacobsen, Anders-Christian.
  • Ulrich, Jörg.
  • Brakke, David.
Description
327 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Early Christianity in the context of antiquity, 1862-197X ; v. 4
Uniform Title
Early Christianity in the context of antiquity ; v. 4.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface -- The Diversity of Apologetics : From Genre to a Mode of Thinking -- Jews, Christians and 'Pagans' in Conflict -- Criticism of Judaism in Greek and Roman Sources : Charges and Apologetics (Second Century BC to Second Century AD) -- main Topics in Early Christian Apologetics -- Jews and Christians in COnflict? Polemical and Satirical Elements in Revelation 2-3 -- Apologetic Motives in Gnostic Texts -- Traces of Apologetics in Rabbinic Literature -- Truth Begs No Favours -- Martyr-Literature and Apologetics -- Apologetics and Orthodoxy -- For the Sake of 'Rational Worship' : The Issue of Prayer and Cult in Early Christian Apologetics -- Josephus' Contra Apionem as Jewish Apologetics -- Ritus ad soles digitos pertinens : A Caricature of Roman Civic Religion in Lactantius' Institutiones divinae
ISBN
  • 9783631580110
  • 3631580118
OCLC
  • ocn419873280
  • 419873280
  • SCSB-5481670
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries