Part 1. The formative period. The making of a heretic : the life of Origen in Epiphanius Panarion 64 / J. Rebecca Lyman
Manichaeans and public disputation in late antiquity / Richard Lim
The conversations with the Syrian Orthodox under Justinian (532) / Sebastian Brock
Anti-Jewish polemic and the emergence of Islam / Vincent Déroche
Part 2. The encounter with Islam. Byzantine accounts of Islam / Wolfgang Eichner
Disputes with Muslims in Syriac Christian texts : from Patriarch John (d. 648) to Bar Hebraeus (d. 1286) / Sidney H. Griffith
The signs of prophecy : the emergence and early development of a theme in Arabic theological literature / Sarah Stroumsa
Reopening the Muslim-Christian dialogue of the 13th-14th centuries : critical reflections on Ibn Taymiyyah's response to Christianity / Nancy N. Roberts
Part 3. Iconoclasm. A dark-age crisis : aspects of the iconoclastic controversy / Peter Brown
Texts as weapons : polemic in the Byzantine Dark Ages / Averil Cameron
Part 4. Anti-Latin texts. Byzantine perceptions of Latin religious 'errors' / Tia M. Kolbaba
Part 5. The tools of argument. Dyophysite Florilegia of the fifth and sixth centuries CE / Marcel Richard
The saint, the scholar and the astrologer : a study of hagiographical themes in some 'question and answer' collections of the fifth-seventh centuries CE / Gilbert Dagron
The first Christians Summa theologiae in Arabic : Christian kalām in ninth-century palestine / Sidney H. Griffith
Communal identity and the systematisation of knowledge in the Syriac 'cause of all causes' / G.J. Reinink
Abdallah ibn al-Faḍl's exposition of the Orthodox faith / Ramy Wannous.