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Dialogue with Trypho the Jew

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Dialogue with Trypho the JewSt. Justin Martyr

Dialogue with Trypho the Jew

The longest surviving second-century dialogue between a Christian and a Jew

By St. Justin Martyr

6 h 13 min · Early Church · Greek and Byzantine

Justin's record of a two-day conversation at Ephesus with Trypho, a learned Jew: his own road through philosophy to Christ, and a long argument from the Hebrew Scriptures that Jesus is the promised Messiah, that a new covenant has been given, and that the Church is the true Israel.

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Source: Roberts-Donaldson translation, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 1 (1885), ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Public domain. Source text via Wikisource.