Between Jews and Heretics: Refiguring Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho (2018 Dulk), book

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Between Jews and Heretics: Refiguring Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho (2018) is a book by Matthijs den Dulk.

Abstract

"This volume offers a new interpretation of Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho (c. 160 CE), which 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. 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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: Routledge, 2018 (Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World).

Contents

Justin Martyr, heresy hunter -- The case for an internal audience -- The Dialogue as an anti-heretical text -- "Heresy" and the composition of the Dialogue -- In favor of heresiology.

External links

  • [ Google Books]
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