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Religious Polemics and Encounters in Late Antiquity: Boundaries, Conversions, and Persuasion explores the intricate identity formation and negotiations of early encounters of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). It explores the ever-pressing challenges arising from polemical inter-religious encounters by analyzing the dynamics of apologetic debate, the negotiation and formation of boundaries of belonging, and the argumentative thrust for persuasion and conversion, as well as the outcomes of these various encounters, including the articulation of novel ideas. The Late Antique authors studied in the present volume represent a variety of voices from North Africa, passing through Rome, to Palestine. Together, these voices of the past offer invaluable insight to shape the present times, in hope for a better future.
Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Abraham in Justin Martyr's Dialogue
Antti Laato
Excellent, but How? Abraham in Josephus
Erkki Koskenniemi
Illusory Polemics: Clement and Irenaeus on the Gnostics
Sami Yli-Karjanmaa
Justin Martyr as a Polemicist
Sven-Olav Back
Mimus Religionis, Mimicry, and Deviance: Late Antique Polemic against Religious Others
Maijastina Kahlos
Tertullian on Christian Converts and Clashes with the Pagan World
Anni Maria Laato
Worshipping a False Go(o)d: Praeparatio Evangelica 7.2-4 through the Lens of Anti-Epicurean Polemics
Siiri Toiviainen Rø
Anti-Donatist Polemic and Biblical Hermeneutics: Questions of Ecclesiology in Augustine of Hippo's De Doctrina Christiana
Joseph Grabau
Talking with the Enemy: Fictitious Polemical Dialogues against the Donatists in Augustine's Sermones Ad Populum
Timo Nisula
The Challenge of Shame for Philosophical Dialogue in Augustine's Early Writings
Eetu Manninen
The Grace of Merit and the Merit of Grace: Dialogical Ambiguity in Augustine's Sermons
Pablo Irizar
The Rhetoric of Appropriation and Dissociation in Evodius' Aduersus Manichaeos: A Case Study of Anti-Manichaean Polemics
Aäron Vanspauwen
Threat of Conversion in the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam?
Serafim Seppälä
Index
