Jewish-Christian Disputations in Antiquity and the Middle Ages : Fictions and Realities (Late Antique History and Religion)

Morlet, S. (EDT)

Peeters Publishers（2020/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 285 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789042938571
• DDC分類 239.2

Full Description

Ancient and medieval literature has bequeathed to us dialogues between
Jews and Christians. Though there can be no doubt that polemical exchanges
existed between individuals in the context of private discussions or
formal debates, the exact relation of the dialogical texts and historical
reality is sometimes unclear. In the case of ancient Christian dialogues,
contradicting analyses have been put forward. Some scholars think they
represent reliable documents about the «real» debates. Others contend that
such texts are purely literary entities, and that their purpose was
self-definition. Certainly no general theory can be adduced to account for
all early Christian dialogical texts against the Jews. The present book,
however, tries to evaluate both views with a series of contributions on a
neglected late antique Greek dialogue, the Dialogue of Timothy and
Aquila (6th-7th c. AD). For the sake of comparison, the second part
includes papers on a medieval latin dialogical text, the Dialogus
written by Peter Alfonsi (11th-12th c. AD). The last part gathers studies
about the less documented other side: Jewish polemical texts against
Christianity. The book is introduced by a historiographical survey by
William Horbury.