The Double Bind of Christianity's Judaism: Language, Law, and the Incoherence of Late Antique Discourse

Is there a way to connect the polyphony of attitudes and diversity of strategies that late antique Christian authors display in writing about Jews and Judaism into a discursive whole? This essay offers one possible answer by focusing on the rhetorical effects of contradiction within Christian rhetor...

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Main Author: Berzon, Todd S. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press [2015]
In: Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 445-480
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Church / Rhetoric / Judaism / Anti-judaism / History 30-600
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
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