Resumen de Christians in Conversation: A Guide to Late Antique Dialogues in Greek and Syriac by Alberto Rigolio (review)
Furthermore, rather than viewing religious content as problematic, Christian dialogues and disputations provide an opportunity to see how early Christians tried to understand and negotiate their relationships with other religious groups (Jews, Manichaeans, pagans, Zoroastrians, and Christians perceived to be heretical). The distinction between the literate and non-literate might be mitigated if one could show that written dialogues mirrored the conventions of public disputations, reflecting a broadly shared understanding in contemporary society of how religious arguments should be conducted in public settings. [...]Rigolio's book represents a significant advance in the study of early Christian dialogues and opinion formation in late antiquity.
