Critique and apologetics : Jews, Christians, and pagans in antiquity /

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Imprint:Frankfurt : Peter Lang , c2009.
Description:327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Early Christianity in the context of antiquity, 1862-197X ; v. 4
Early Christianity in the context of antiquity ; v. 4.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7849395
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Other authors / contributors:Jacobsen, Anders-Christian.
Ulrich, Jörg.
Brakke, David.
ISBN:9783631580110 (hbk.)
3631580118
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:This book contains 13 contributions from an international conference held in 2007. The idea of the conference was to investigate the confrontations and the cultural, philosophical and religious exchange between different religious groups in antiquity and to establish a more comprehensive theory about what apologetics was considered to be both in the context of antiquity and from the perspective of modern scholarship: is it possible to define a literary genre called apologetics? Is it possible to talk about apologetics as a certain kind of discourse which is not limited to a special kind of texts? Which argumentative strategies are implied in apologetic discourses? The essays in this volume present a new approach to these questions.
Physical Description:327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783631580110 (hbk.)
3631580118
ISSN:1862-197X
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