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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822770103321

Autore

Neusner Jacob <1932-2016>

Titolo

The intellectual foundations of Christian and Jewish discourse : the philosophy of religious argument / / Jacob Neusner, Bruce Chilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-73560-X

1-280-56727-9

9786610567270

0-203-13180-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xvi, 184 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChiltonBruce

Disciplina

296.3/01

Soggetti

Jewish law - Interpretation and construction

Theology - Methodology - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Midrash - History and criticism

Dialectic

Reasoning

Judaism - Relations - Christianity

Christianity and other religions - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume argues the Judaic and Christian heirs of Scripture adopted, and adapted to their own purposes and tasks, Greek philosophical modes of thought and argument, and explores how the earliest intellectuals of Christianity and Judaism shaped a tradition of articulated conflict and reasoned argument in the search for religious truth that was to be shared through continuing that argument with others. Professors Chilton and Neusner examine, using the formative sources of Judaism and Christianity, the literary media of adaptation and reform: precisely where and how we identify in the foundation writings of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, the new opposing modes of articulated conflict and reasoned argument that through Christianity and Judaism, Greek philosophy and science bequeathed to the West.



This volume provides an analysis of the genesis and evolution of Judaeo-Christian intellectual thought and identifies the modes of discourse in the Judaic and Christian intellectual and literary traditions.