Critique and apologetics : Jews, Christians, and pagans in antiquity /
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| Imprint: | Frankfurt : Peter Lang , c2009. |
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| 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 |
Table of 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