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Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton.
The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse: The Philosophy of Religious Argument.
Published London: Routledge, 1997.
ISBN 0415153999;
ISBN-13 9780415153997.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Mackays of Chatham.
Size: 137x215x15mm.
Page count: xvi,184pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, a bit of wear on the edges with the corners starting to rub and curl; pages starting to yellow with age; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £27.99]
Weight without packaging: 269g.

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Emphasis generally pre-medieval. Argues that Judaic and Christian heirs of scripture adopted and adapted Greek philosophical modes of thought and argument, and explores how their earliest intellectuals shaped a tradition of articulated conflict and reasoned argument.

Contents: Confronting conflict in the Mishnah — in the letters of Paul; Conducting dialectical argument in the Talmud — in Origen; Arguments from natural history in the Mishnah & Leviticus Rabbah; Arguments from nature — Irenaeus — emergence of Gnosticism; Arguments from social history — paradigmatic thinking in Ruth Rabbah, Pesiqta deRab Kahana & Genesis Rabbah — paradigmatic thinking in Augustine.

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Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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