Dialogue with Trypho

by Justin Martyr

Publisher:

Catholic University of America

, 2003

Overview

Outside the New Testament, our earliest complete witness to Christian apologetic against the Jews remains the Dialogue with Trypho, written by Justin Martyr, 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 remains of great, and varying, interest. It has 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. The Dialogue is an ideal textbook for classes investigating the development of religion in Late Antiquity since it touches on many aspects of religion in the Roman Empire.

Contents

Top Highlights

“as God and man, and as about to suffer death on the cross” (Page 111)

“the Holy Spirit alighted upon him in the form of a dove” (Page 137)

“Magi of Arabia, how they came as soon as the child was born, and worshipped him” (Page 137)

Product Details

• Title: Dialogue with Trypho
• Author: Justin Martyr
• Series: Selections from the Fathers of the Church
• Volume: 3
• Publisher: Catholic University of America
• Print Publication Date: 2003
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christianity and other religions › Judaism--Early works to 1800; Judaism › Relations--Christianity--Early works to 1800; Apologetics › Early works to 1800; Trypho
• ISBNs: 081321341, 0813213428, 9780813213422
• Resource ID: LLS:DIALOGUETRYPHO
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-19T23:50:32Z

About Justin Martyr

Justin Martyr, also known as just Saint Justin the Philosopher (103–165), was an early Christian apologist. Most of his works are lost, but two apologies, a dialogue, and a few other fragments survive. He is considered a Saint by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.