Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-262) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Why don't Christians do dialogue?; Part I Classical models; Chapter 1 Fictions of dialogue in Thucydides; Chapter 2 The beginnings of dialogue Socratic discourses and fourth-century prose; Chapter 3 Plato's dialogues and a common rationale for dialogue form; Part II Empire models; Chapter 4 Ciceronian dialogue; Chapter 5 Sympotic dialogue in the first to fifth centuries CE; Part III Christianity and the theological imperative; Chapter 6 Can we talk? Augustine and the possibility of dialogue
Chapter 7 'Let's (not) talk about it' Augustine and the control of epistolary dialoguePart IV Christianity and the social imperative; Chapter 8 Christians, dialogues and patterns of sociability in late antiquity; Chapter 9 Boethius, Gregory the Great and the Christian 'afterlife' of classical dialogue; Part V Judaism and the limits of dialogue; Chapter 10 No dialogue at the symposium? Conviviality in Ben Sira and the Palestinian Talmud; Chapter 11 Dialectic and divination in the Talmud; Bibliography; Index
