Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Professor of Religion at Bard College. His books include Rabbi Jesus, A Galilean Rabbi and His Bible, The Temple of Jesus, Pure Kingdom, and Visions of the Apocalypse. He has written the first critical commentary on the Aramaic version of Isaiah (The Isaiah Targum).Robert Tully is Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He co-authored with Frederic Portoraro a textbook on symbolic logic and has published many articles on Russell, Moore and Wittgenstein. With Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner he edited Just War in Religion and Politics, to which he also contributed an essay.

Introduction, Bruce ChiltonPart I: WarfareBarbarians at the Gates: the Complexities, Contradictions and Concerns about Modern Asymmetrical Warfare, David Wallace and Cynthia MarshallWalzer Contra Walzer: Uncovering the Pluralist Roots of Walzer¿s Just War Theory, Graham ParsonsThe Hegemon¿s Dilemma: Power Intolerance from Ancient Athens to the United States of America, Scott A. SilverstoneMeans and Methods of Warfare: Towards an Objective Assessment for Selecting Military Targets¿Beyond ¿Enemy Thinking¿? Mirjam de BruinPart II: Internal divisionsFrom Slavery to Black Power: Racial Intolerance at West Point, 1778¿2015, Ty SeiduleAll Men Are Created Equal: Misogyny under Law, Maritza RyanPart III: Religious intoleranceOn Religious (in)Tolerance, Nelly LahoudTheological Complicity in Religious Violence, Ellen T. Charry¿And who is my neighbor?¿ American Liberators in Transnational Context, Stephen F. BarkerPoisoned Virtue: Child Sacrifice in Abrahamic Scriptures and Interpretation, Bruce ChiltonPart IV: Political and philosophical considerationsPlagues and Politics: Epidemics and ¿Re-Framing¿ in Modern American History, Andrew J. ForneyResidue of Intolerance: Polluting Civil Rights, Robert J. GoldsteinCynicism and Perennial Intolerance: Mendelssohn against the Decisionists, Dustin AtlasOvercoming Modernity and Violence, Gennady ShkliarevskyContrariety in Philosophy, Robert E. TullyWho Takes Whom to Tango: UN Neoliberal Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone, Darya Pushkina and Philippe Ch.-A. Guillot with Susanna AnEpilogue: A Taxonomy of Intolerance, Robert E. TullyList of contributorsIndex

The essays examine specimens of social intolerance drawn from a broad field of history and culture: Classical Greece, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and America. Themes include women's legal rights; humanitarian law; legitimized child sacrifice; discrimination against racial and religious minorities; religious animosity; Just War morality; theological discord; philosophical antagonism.