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Authors: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-13: 9780415153980, ISBN-10: 0415153980
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: September 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jacob Neusner

Book Synopsis

The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse is a unique and controversial analysis of the genesis and evolution of Judeo-Christian intellectual thought. Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton argue that the Judaic and Christian heirs of Scripture adopted, and adapted to their own purposes, Greek philosophical modes of thought, argument and science.

Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse explores how the earliest intellectuals of Christianity and Judaism shaped a tradition of articulated conflict and reasoned argument in the search for religious truth and focuses especially on methods of discourse in the Judaic and Christian intellectual and literary traditions.

Table of Contents

Preface
1Confronting Conflict in the Mishnah3
2Confronting Conflict in the Letters of Paul26
3Conducting Dialectical Argument in the Talmud47
4Conducting Dialectical Argument in Origen70
5Arguments from Natural History in the Mishnah and in Leviticus Rabbah89
6Arguments From Nature: Irenaeus111
7Arguments From Social History: Paradigmatic thinking in Ruth Rabbah, Pesiqta deRab Kahana, and Genesis Rabbah129
8Arguments From Social History: Paradigmatic thinking in Augustine154
Glossary168
Notes175
Index182

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Christianity Comparative Religion Christianity - Comparative Studies
Christianity Comparative Religion Judaism - Comparative Studies
Christianity Judaism & Judaica Jewish Law
Christianity Judaism & Judaica Judaism - Comparative Studies
Christianity Judaism & Judaica Scriptures & Rabbinical Literature - Judaism
Christianity Theology General & Miscellaneous Theology
Christianity All Religion General & Miscellaneous Religion
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Judaism & Judaica Judaism - Comparative Studies Judaism -> Relations -> Christianity
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