Between Jews and Heretics: Refiguring Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho (Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World) - Softcover

Den Dulk, Matthijs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367590727 ISBN 13: 9780367590727

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho is the oldest preserved literary dialogue between a Jew and a Christian and a key text for understanding the development of early Judaism and Christianity. In Between Jews and Heretics, Matthijs den Dulk argues that whereas scholarship has routinely cast this important text in terms of "Christianity vs. Judaism," its rhetorical aims and discursive strategies are considerably more complex, because Justin is advocating his particular form of Christianity in constant negotiation with rival forms of Christianity. The striking new interpretation proposed in this study explains many of the Dialogue’s puzzling features and sheds new light on key passages. Because the Dialogue is a critical document for the early history of Jews and Christians, this book contributes to a range of important questions, including the emergence of the notion of heresy and the "parting of the ways" between Jews and Christians.

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About the Author

Matthijs den Dulk is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Radboud University, The Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367590727
• ISBN 13: 9780367590727
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174