Dialogue With Trypho

by Martyr, Justin; Slusser, Michael; Justin

• ISBN13: 9780813213422
• ISBN10: 0813213428
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr

Summary

Selections from the Fathers of the Church 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 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 re

Author Biography

Thomas P. Halton is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin at the Catholic University of America

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Introduction to This Edition	xi
Introduction to the First Edition	xv
DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO
Justin meets Trypho	3	(2)
How Justin found philosophy	5	(12)
Justin offers to defend Christian belief	17	(3)
A new covenant, not a new God	20	(11)
Jewish ritual laws as a remedy for idolatry	31	(6)
A Christian interpretation of ritual laws	37	(10)
The Messiah: already here or still to come?	47	(7)
Divisions among Christians	54	(2)
The divinity of the Messiah	56	(9)
Scriptural types of Jesus	65	(3)
Those who live by the Law of Moses	68	(5)
The Messiah must be Jesus	73	(9)
The unity of God and the divinity of Christ	82	(15)
The virginal birth	97	(14)
Corrections to the text of Scripture	111	(5)
[The Second Day's Discussion]	116	(1)
More on the birth of Jesus	117	(8)
Millennium at the end of the world	125	(3)
Interpreting Scripture about Christ	128	(11)
The problem of the crucifixion	139	(9)
How Christians read Psalm 22	148	(13)
The sign of Jonah	161	(3)
Reprise of points from the first day	164	(8)
Jesus as high priest	172	(6)
The Gentiles as God's new people	178	(11)
The names of Christ in Scripture	189	(4)
The unity of God and the divinity of Christ: reprise	193	(3)
The election of the Jews and Gentiles	196	(10)
A final appeal	206	(6)
Conclusion	212	(1)
Select Bibliography	213	(6)
General Index	219	(4)
Index of Holy Scripture	223