G.H. van Kooten / J. van Ruiten (Hg.): Intoleranz, Polemik und Debatten in der Antike

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

Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity

Politico-Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Forms of Critical Conversation
Politisch-kulturelle, philosophische und religiöse Formen kritischer Konversation

Serie:

Themes in Biblical Narrative, Band: 25

Leiden: Brill 2019 (October)

— ISBN

978-90-0-41067-1 —

Publisher’s Information

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

Die Herausgeber und Autoren / Editors and Authors:
George van Kooten, Ph.D. (2001), Leiden University, is the Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. His interests and expertise concern the contextualization of the New Testament writings in their Graeco-Roman context.

Jacques van Ruiten, Ph.D. (1990), Catholic University Amsterdam, is Professor of the Reception History of the Bible at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the reception history of biblical texts, especially in early Judaism. Recently, he was visiting fellow at the Pontificio Instituto Biblico, Rome (2016-17). Contributors:
Robbert van den Berg, Stefan Beyerle, George Boys-Stones, Reuven Firestone, Pieter B. Hartog, Paul Heck, Paulin Ismard, George van Kooten, Marjo C. Korpel, Dominik Markl, Steve Mason, Peter Franz Mittag, James C. Oleson, James Carleton Paget, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Jacques van Ruiten, Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella, Clare Wilde.

Contents / Inhaltsverzeichnis

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