TERTULLIANI ADVERSUS IUDAEOS
TERTULLIANI ADVERSUS IUDAEOS

Author(s): Levente Pap
Subject(s): Other Language Literature, Rhetoric
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Tertullian; techniques of argumentation; Adversus Iudaeos;
Summary/Abstract: Tertullian was a person of paradoxes. There are problems around the limits of his life, his birth and death, there are contradictory data about his studies, his work (was he really a lawyer?), and there are paradoxes in his theology, in his technique of argumentation and in his style. One of the most paradoxical aspects of his work is that Tertullian, a person belonging to a religious community founded by a Jew and heavily relying on Jewish tenets, attacks the same Jews in his Adversus Iudaeos, 'Against the Jews'. The paper examines Tertullian's literary and rhetorical arsenal in this writing.

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