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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.
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Contents: Jörg Ulrich/Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Preface - Anders Klostergaard Petersen: The Diversity of Apologetics: From Genre to a Mode of Thinking - Judith M. Lieu: Jews, Christians and 'Pagans' in Conflict - Oda Wischmeyer: Criticism of Judaism in Greek and Roman Sources: Charges and Apologetics (Second Century BC to Second Century AD) - Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Main Topics in Early Christian Apologetics - Eve-Marie Becker: Jews and Christians in Conflict? Polemical and Satirical Elements in Revelation 2-3 - Barbara Aland: Apologetic Motives in Gnostic Texts - Friedrich Avemarie: Traces of Apologetics in Rabbinic Literature - Jakob Engberg: Truth Begs No Favours - Martyr-Literature and Apologetics - Jörg Ulrich: Apologetics and Orthodoxy - Lorenzo Perrone: For the Sake of a 'Rational Worship': The Issue of Prayer and Cult in Early Christian Apologetics - John M.G. Barclay: Josephus' Contra Apionem as Jewish Apologetics - Maijastina Kahlos: Ritus ad solos digitos pertinens (Lact., inst. 5.19,29): A Caricature of Roman Civic Religion in Lactantius' Institutiones divinae - Karla Pollmann: Nullus quippe credit aliquid, nisi prius cogitaverit esse credendum: Augustine as Apologist.
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The Editors: Anders-Christian Jacobsen is Professor of Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark). Jörg Ulrich is Professor of Early Church History in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). David Brakke is Professor of Ancient Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the Indiana University of Bloomington (USA).
