Tertullian's Aduersus Iudaeos

by Dunn, Geoffrey D.

• ISBN13: 9780813215266
• ISBN10: 0813215269
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr

Summary

Tertullians Aduersus Iudaeos (Against the Jews) is one of the most controversial works of early Christian literature for modern scholarship not only because of its subject matter, which denies the enduring validity of Judaism subsequent to the appearance of Christianity, but also because of the debate surrounding the authenticity of the second half of the work itself. Many believe that the parallels with the third book of Aduersus Marcionem indicate that someone other than Tertullian completed this work by taking material from the latter source. As a result, historical studies of the relationship between Jews and Christians have widely neglected this work.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Controversy Surrounding the Text and the Genre	p. 5
Those Who Doubt the Work's Integrity and Authenticity	p. 6
Those Who Accept the Work's Integrity and Authenticity	p. 8
Judaism and Christianity in Contact?	p. 15
A Rhetorical Reading	p. 27
Readership	p. 31
Declamation and Eulogy	p. 32
Aduersus Iudaeos as Controuersia	p. 36
Second-Century Christian Rhetoric	p. 38
Real, Imagined, and Intended Readers	p. 40
Imagined Readers of Aduerus Iudaeos	p. 43
Intended Readers of Aduersus Iudaeos	p. 50
Conclusion	p. 56
Structure	p. 58
Sider's Observations of General Structural Patterns in Tertullian	p. 60
Exordium	p. 61
Narratio	p. 65
Partitio	p. 66
Refutatio	p. 72
Confirmatio	p. 75
Peroratio	p. 84
Summary of Rhetorical Structure	p. 86
Comparison with Other Structural Arrangements of Aduersus Iudaeos	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 95
Argumentation	p. 97
Classical Rhetoric on Argumentation	p. 98
Sider's Observations on Tertullian's Arguments	p. 103
Argumentation in Aduersus Iudaeos	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 139
Style	p. 142
Classical Rhetoric on Style	p. 143
Style in Tertullian	p. 146
Style in Aduersus Iudaeos	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 169
Conclusion	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 183
General Index	p. 197
Index of Citations to Tertullian	p. 205
Index of Citations to Scripture	p. 209
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