Religious Polemics in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

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Religious Polemics in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Edited by: Yohanan Friedmann and Christoph Markschies

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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The volume deals with polemics between Judaism, Christianity and Islam as well as with internal polemics in these religions. It includes subjects such as the doctrinal debates in the early centuries of Christianity, concluding that they must be understood as "rational discourse employed for the purpose of identity formation"; the debate on the question of why King David was prevented from building the Temple; Christian theology in Germany in the nineteenth century; "spatial" or "visual" polemics in a religiously mixed Israeli city and at Rachel’s tomb; and an analysis of the polemical contents of Pope Benedict XVI Regensburg address.

Held together by the central theme of religious polemics, the volume’s chronological and geographical spread – from Late Antiquity through the modern period, and from Europe to the Middle East – will make it of interest to a wide range of scholars and interested laypersons.

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Yochanan Friedmann, Jerusalem, Israel, and Christoph Markschies, Berlin, Germany.

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Introduction
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Christoph Markschies

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Doctrinal Debates as Religious Polemics
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Johannes Zachhuber

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Polemics in Non-Polemic Ancient Genres
27
Christoph Markschies

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“Are You The One to Build Me a House?”
37
Meira Polliack, Arye Zoref and Orly Mizrachi

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Catholicism versus Protestantism and Vice Versa
79
Simon Gerber

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The Materialities of Interfaith Spatial Dialogues
91
Nimrod Luz

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Religious Polemics in Motion
109
Elisa Farinacci and Nurit Stadler

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The Trauma of God’s Excessive Transcendence and the Option of Interreligious Dialogue
135
Christoph Schmidt

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Index of Names
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Index of Places and Institutions
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eBook published on:

June 30, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111630328

Hardcover published on:

June 30, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111630021

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Front matter:

6

Main content:

154

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3

Coloured Illustrations:

8

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1

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111630328

eBook ISBN: 9783111630328

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111630021

Keywords for this book

Judaism; Islam; Christianity; religious polemics.

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Scholars of comparative religion, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, contemporary Middle East, historians, literary scholars.

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Religious Polemics in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

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About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Doctrinal Debates as Religious Polemics

Polemics in Non-Polemic Ancient Genres

“Are You The One to Build Me a House?”

Catholicism versus Protestantism and Vice Versa

The Materialities of Interfaith Spatial Dialogues

Religious Polemics in Motion

The Trauma of God’s Excessive Transcendence and the Option of Interreligious Dialogue

Index of Names

Index of Places and Institutions

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