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Dialogue with Trypho / St. Justin Martyr ; translated by Thomas B. Falls ; revised and with a new introduction by Thomas P. Halton ; edited by Michael Slusser.
LIBRA BR65.J83 D5313 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Justin, Martyr, Saint
- Series:
- Fathers of the church. Selections v. 3.
- Fathers of the church. Selections
- Standardized Title:
- Dialogus cum Tryphone. English
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and other religions--Judaism--Early works to 1800.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity--Early works to 1800.
- Judaism.
- Apologetics--Early works to 1800.
- Apologetics.
- Trypho.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 229 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Greek.
- Summary:
- Outside the New Testament, our earliest complete witness to Christian apologetic against the Jews remains the Dialogue with Trypho, written by Justin Martyr (d. ca. 165), a convert to Christianity from traditional Greek religion. The Dialogue purports to be a two-day dialogue that took place in Asia Minor between Justin and Trypho, a Hellenized Jew. Justin argues extensively on the basis of lengthy Old Testament quotations that Christ is the Messiah and God incarnate, and that the Christian community is the new Israel. In the beginning of the work Justin recounts how he converted to Christianity. The Dialogue contains important information on the development of Jewish-Christian relations, on the development of the text of the Old Testament, and on the existence and character of the early Jewish Christian community. Justin's story of how he became a Christian is one of our earliest conversion accounts. This edition of the Dialogue with Trypho is a revision of Thomas B. Falls's translation, which appeared in Fathers of the Church, vol. 6. Thomas P. Halton has emended the translation in light of the 1997 critical edition by Miroslav Marcovich, and he has provided extensive annotation to recent scholarship on the Dialogue.
- Contents:
- Justin meets Trypho
- How Justin found philosophy
- Justin offers to defend Christian belief
- A new covenant, not a new God
- Jewish ritual laws as a remedy for idolatry
- A Christian interpretation of ritual laws
- The Messiah: already here or still to come?
- Divisions among Christians
- The divinity of the Messiah
- Scriptural types of Jesus
- Those who live by the Law of Moses
- The Messiah must be Jesus
- The unity of God and the divinity of Christ
- The virginal birth
- Corrections to the text of Scripture
- The second day's discussion
- More on the birth of Jesus
- Millennium at the end of the world
- Interpreting Scripture about Christ
- The problem of the crucifixion
- How Christians read Psalm 22
- The sign of Jonah
- Reprise of points from the first day
- Jesus as high priest
- The gentiles as God's new people
- The names of Christ in Scripture
- The unity of God and the divinity of Christ: reprise
- The election of the Jews and gentiles
- A final appeal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 081321341X
- 0813213428
- OCLC:
- 50844070
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