Intro
Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Abraham in Justin Martyr's Dialogue (Laato)
Excellent, but How? Abraham in Josephus (Koskenniemi)
Illusory Polemics: Clement and Irenaeus on the Gnostics (Yli-Karjanmaa)
Justin Martyr as a Polemicist (Back)
Mimus Religionis, Mimicry, and Deviance: Late Antique Polemic against Religious Others (Kahlos)
Tertullian on Christian Converts and Clashes with the Pagan World (Laato)
Worshipping a False Go(o)d: Praeparatio Evangelica 7.2-4 through the Lens of Anti-Epicurean Polemics (Toiviainen Rø)
Anti-Donatist Polemic and Biblical Hermeneutics: Questions of Ecclesiology in Augustine of Hippo's De Doctrina Christiana (Grabau)
Talking with the Enemy: Fictitious Polemical Dialogues against the Donatists in Augustine's Sermones ad populum (Nisula)
The Challenge of Shame for Philosophical Dialogue in Augustine's Early Writings (Manninen)
The Grace of Merit and the Merit of Grace: Dialogical Ambiguity in Augustine's Sermons (Irizar)
The Rhetoric of Appropriation and Dissociation in Evodius' Aduersus Manichaeos: A Case Study of Anti-Manichaean Polemics (Vanspauwen)
Threat of Conversion in the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam? (Seppälä)
Index of Subjects
Index of Modern Authors