Religious conflict from early Christianity to the rise of Islam / edited by Wendy Mayer and Bronwen Neil.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Religious conflict: definitions, problems and theoretical approaches / Wendy Mayer -- Setting the record straight at Galatia: Paul's narratio (Gal 1:13-2:14) as response to the Galatian conflict / Ian J. Elmer -- Early Christian polemic against Jews and the persecution of Christians in Rome by Nero / James S. McLaren -- The use of Isaiah 28:11-12 in 1 Corinthians 14:21 / Michael P. Theophilos and A.M. Smith -- Conflict in the canon: the Pauline literature and the Gospel of Matthew / David C. Sim -- Rewriting: the path from apocryphal to heretical / Pierluigi Piovanelli -- Inter-city conflict in the story of St Michael of Chonai / Alan H. Cadwallader -- John Chrysostom and the Anomoeans: shaping an Antiochene perspective on Christology / Raymond J. Laird -- Media manipulation as a tool in religious conflict: controlling the narrative surrounding the deposition of John Chrysostom / Wendy Mayer -- Zosimus and the Gallic churches / Geoffrey D. Dunn -- Religious conflict between Antioch and Alexandria c. 565-630 CE / Pauline Allen -- Christian-Jewish conflict in the light of Heraclius' forced conversions and the beginning of Islam / Sarah Gador-Whyte -- The earliest Greek understandings of Islam: John of Damascus and Theophanes the Confessor / Bronwen Neil -- Muhammad the eschatological prophet / Damien Casey.