“…Study in anti-Gnostic polemics…”

Subjects: “…late antique theological polemics.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Christian Identity via Anti-Jewish Polemic.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Literary Characteristics of the Gnostic Dialogue -- Techniques of Dialogue Composition -- The Narrative Setting of the Gnostic Dialogue -- The Content of the Gnostic Revelation Dialogues -- Part Two. Traditions and Polemic in the Gnostic Dialogue -- The Gnostic Revealer -- The True Ascetic: The Thomas Tradition -- The Gnostic Apostle: The Petrine Tradition -- Those Whome Jesus Loves: The Non-Apostles -- Summary: The Polemic Range of the Revelation Dialogue -- Part Three. …”

Table of Contents: “…Morton Smith and the secret Gospel of Mark -- Heresies and orthodoxies: At polar ends of the spectrum, early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites; Christians "in the know", the worlds of early Christian gnosticism; On the road to Nicaea, the broad swath of proto-orthodox Christianity -- Winners and losers: Quest for orthodoxy; Arsenal of the conflicts, polemic treatises and personal slurs; Additional weapons in the polemic arsenal, forgeries and falsifications; Invention of scripture, the formation of the proto-orthodox New Testament; Winners, losers, and the question of tolerance.…”

Table of Contents: “…Secularizing Jesus -- The problem of audience -- The problem of gehenna -- Apocalyptic, polemic, apologetics -- Torah, urzeit, endzeit -- Resurrecting Jesus.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The madrashe on faith in context -- Investigation -- Bible, polemics, and language -- A poetic "I" -- Audience and the vision of the text -- A divine son…”
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Table of Contents: “…African churches -- In dialogue with heresy : Christian polemical literature -- 'What they are to US, we are to them' : Homoian orthodoxy and Homoousian heresy -- Ecclesiastical histories : reinventing the Arians -- Exiles on main street: Nicene bishops and the Vandal court -- Christianity, ethnicity and society -- Elite Christianity, political service and social prestige -- Epilogue: Homoian Christianity in the Post-Imperial West.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Worshipers of so-called gods, Jews, and Christians: religion in ethnoracial discourses -- We were before the foundation of the world: appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition -- We quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel: Christian claims to peoplehood -- A Genos saved by nature: Ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic -- From every race of humans: ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…apologetics and imperial ideology in Constantine's Oration to the saints and imperial letters -- From Hebrew wisdom to Christian hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's apologetics and panegyrics -- Epilogue: empire's palimpsest -- Appendix: Porphyry's polemics and the great persecution.…”
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Table of Contents: “…apologetics and imperial ideology in Constantine's Oration to the saints and imperial letters -- From Hebrew wisdom to Christian hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea's apologetics and panegyrics -- Epilogue: empire's palimpsest -- Appendix: Porphyry's polemics and the great persecution.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The translations ; Latin Judaeo-Christianity : anti-Jewish polemics ; Latin Judaeo-Christianity : the confrontation with paganism ; The survival of Judaeo-Christianity in the third century -- Christianity and Latin culture. …”

Table of Contents: “…The Markan horizon of meaning / David Hawkin -- The Spirit and the appropriation of the past / Benno Przybylski -- Reflections on historical criticism and self-understanding / Brice Martin -- William Wrede, Albert Eichhorn, and the "old quest" of the historical Jesus / Hans Rollmann -- Christology, discipleship, and self-understanding in Mark / Philip Davis -- The focus of Jesus' eschatology / Ben Wiebe -- Johannine self-understanding and the synagogue episode of John 9 / Wayne McCready -- To catch a thief / Adele Reinhartz -- Paul, classical anti-Jewish polemic, and the letter to the Romans / Stephen Mason -- From the apostolate to the episcopate / Tom Robinson…”

Table of Contents: “…Les vers servant aux saints: Didactic Poetry and Anti-Heretical Polemic in the Carmen de Ingratis…”
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Table of Contents: “…Like a Farmer Sowing Seeds -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Sowing Knowledge: Procreation and Pedagogy -- Teachers and Learners: Fathers and Sons -- Philosophical Precedents -- Learners as Sons Not Mothers -- The Absent Mother -- Engendering the Learner -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: Defending Teaching Methods with Procreative Language -- Suspicion of Texts -- Planters and Waterers -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: ""Few Are Like Their Fathers"": The Rhetoric of Genealogy and Intra-Christian Polemic -- Producing Children, Pronouncing Dogma -- Few Are Like Their Fathers: The Rhetoric of Sonship…”
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