Christians in conversation : a guide to late antique dialogues in Greek and Syriac /
"To study Christian dialogues means to recognize that the dialogue form, notably employed by Plato and Aristotle, did not exhaust itself with the philosophical schools of Classical and Hellenistic Greece, but emerged transformed and reinvigorated in the religiously diverse world of Late Antiqui...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
©2019.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in late antiquity.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "To study Christian dialogues means to recognize that the dialogue form, notably employed by Plato and Aristotle, did not exhaust itself with the philosophical schools of Classical and Hellenistic Greece, but emerged transformed and reinvigorated in the religiously diverse world of Late Antiquity. The Christians's use of the dialogue form within religious controversy resulted in a burgeoning activity of composition of prose dialogues, which now opposed a Christian and a Jew, a Christian and a pagan, a Christian and a Manichaean, an orthodox and a heretic, or, later, a Christian and a Muslim. The present work offers the first comprehensive analysis of Christian dialogues in Greek and in Syriac from the earliest examples in the second century to the end of the sixth century"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190915469 0190915463 9780190915483 019091548X 9780190915476 0190915471 |