Abstract:
Justin's dialogue with Trypho assembles theoretical reflections on Christian-Jewish disputations based on certain fixed process-rules and traditional written sources such as the Septuagint and Plato. It directs attention to certain philosophical and theological issues and provides exclusive statements about the meeting and Christian reworking of Greek and Hebrew ways of thinking in the Graeco-Roman world. The present article deals with the relationship between philosophy and theology as well as Justin's understanding of scripture as significant conceptual keys to the decipherment of the Septuagint- and Plato-reception in the ongoing 2nd century AD.
