Listening to Trypho: Justin's 'dialogue with Trypho' Reconsidered

by Timothy J. Horner

The primary focus of this study is the figure of Trypho in Justin Martyr's 'Dialogue with Trypho, A Jew' (mid-second century C.E.). A close-reading of Trypho's character reveals a consistent figure who does not appear to be based on a Jewish stereotype or Christian invention. Instead, he is a pre-rabbinic Diaspora Jew whose argumentation style is philosophical, even Socratic. By listening to Trypho one can hear a voice with its own sensibility, style...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042910402
• ISBN13: 9789042910409
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"