| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford studies in late antiquity |
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Oxford studies in late antiquity.
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| Contents |
Dialogue and Christianity -- Dialogues and late antiquity -- The dialogue form and rhetorical training -- The dialogue form and Erotapokriseis -- Towards a comprehensive approach? -- A formal typology -- Guide to dialogues |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism
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Dialogue -- Religious aspects.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church
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Christian literature, Early
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Dialogue -- Religious aspects
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Religious literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190915469 |
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0190915463 |
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9780190915483 |
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019091548X |
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9780190915476 |
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0190915471 |
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