Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and Professor of Religious Studies at Bard College New York. Bruce Chilton is Bernard Idding Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College, New York.

• PART ONE: Confronting Conflict, Articulating Disagreement in a Reasoned Setting, 1. Confronting Conflict in the Mishnah, 2. Confronting Conflict in the Letters of Paul, 3. Conducting Dialectical Argument in the Talmud, 4. Conducting Dialectical Argument in Origen, PART TWO: Seeking Truth, The Character of the Arguments, 5. Arguments from Natural History in the Mishnah and in Leviticus Rabbah, 6. Arguments From Nature Irenaeus, 7. Arguments From Social History: Paradigmatic Thinking in Ruth Rabbah, Pesiqta Derab Kahana, and Genesis Rabbah, 8. Arguments From Social History: Paradigmatic Thinking in Augustine, Index.

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