This proposed model of polemic, on the one hand, and dialogue, on the other, exemplifies the diverse response by Jews in the land of Israel, and later the province Syria Palestine, to Roman culture and religion.
This polemic is going on the Guardian website, and though no one really wants to say so out loud, most of us seem to accept these days that the comments on the Guardian on articles like this, while occasionally containing interesting replies, are far more often the domain of outraged point-missers, incandescently furious pedants, and trolls who don't bother reading past the sub-headline.
A two-level case study is presented in this paper as a critical polemic on this policy landscape.
In this audience-baiting polemic on the nature of violence-as-entertainment, Haneke pits two well-to-do, polite sociopaths against a middle-class couple and their young son.
Yet apparently, the thrust of his efforts is directed toward establishing the idea of the eternity of the Torah, apparently in response to the Jewish-Christian polemic on this topic.
Short on revelation, this memoir qua military history is largely a polemic on behalf of the Army grunt.
Jaden Smith has started modeling for Louis Vuitton's women's line without offering a corresponding polemic on what it "means" that the greater implications of one of the most famous young men in the world is now wearing dresses.
This week Jamie Oliver's Save our Bacon, like Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's recent TV polemic on chicken production, Chickens, Hugh and Tesco too, did a real public service by shining a light on how pig farming works.
But Lemon's polemic on "CNN Tonight" felt especially personal.
Almond's seductive photographs contain a polemic on how technology and industrialisation has altered nature.
