Intoleranz und Polemik in den religiösen, politischen und philosophische Debatten der (späten) Antike

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van Kooten,
George H. and 
van Ruiten, Jacques (eds.): 

Intolerance, Polemics and Debates in Antiquity

Politico-Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Forms of Critical Conversation

Serie: Themes in Biblical Narrative, Band: 25

Leiden: Brill 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41067-1

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In Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity scholars reflect on politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation in the ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and early-Islamic world. They enquire into the boundaries between debate, polemics, and intolerance, and address their manifestations in both philosophy and religion. This cross-cultural and inclusive approach shows that debate and polemics are not so different as often assumed, since polemics may also indicate that ultimate values are at stake. Polemics can also have a positive effect, stimulating further cultural development. Intolerance is more straightforwardly negative. Religious intolerance is often a justification for politics, but also elite rationalism can become totalitarian. The volume also highlights the importance of the fluency of minorities in the dominant discourses and of their ability to develop contrapuntal lines of thought within a common cultural discourse. 

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Inhaltsverzeichnis / Contents
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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