The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse: The Philosophy of Religious Argument
The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse argues that the Judaic and Christian heirs of Scripture adopted, and adapted to their own purposes and tasks, Greek philosophical modes of thought and argument. The authors explore 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.\ Neusner and Chilton...
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The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse is a unique and controversial analysis of the genesis and evolution of Judeo-Christian intellectual thought. Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton argue that the Judaic and Christian heirs of Scripture adopted, and adapted to their own purposes, Greek philosophical modes of thought, argument and science. Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse explores how the earliest intellectuals of Christianity and Judaism shaped a tradition of articulated conflict and reasoned argument in the search for religious truth and focuses especially on methods of discourse in the Judaic and Christian intellectual and literary traditions.
Preface1Confronting Conflict in the Mishnah32Confronting Conflict in the Letters of Paul263Conducting Dialectical Argument in the Talmud474Conducting Dialectical Argument in Origen705Arguments from Natural History in the Mishnah and in Leviticus Rabbah896Arguments From Nature: Irenaeus1117Arguments From Social History: Paradigmatic thinking in Ruth Rabbah, Pesiqta deRab Kahana, and Genesis Rabbah1298Arguments From Social History: Paradigmatic thinking in Augustine154Glossary168Notes175Index182
