'The only belief separating Justin from Trypho is that of Jesus as the Messiah.’ Discuss.

Also consult the reading list for the question on Justin’s Apologetics.

  • Bobichon, Philippe. 2002. “Autorités religieuses juives et “sectes” juives dans l’oeuvre de Justin Martyr.” Revue des études augustiniennes 48, no. 1: 3-22.
  • Bobichon, Philippe. 2004. “Préceptes éternels et loi mosaïque dans le “Dialogue avec Tryphon” de Justin Martyr.” Revue biblique 111, no. 2: 238-54.
  • Boyarin, Daniel. 2001. “Justin Martyr invents Judaism.” Church History 70: 427-61.
  • Cosgrove, Charles H. 1982. “Justin Martyr and the Emerging Christian Canon: Observations On the Purpose and Destination of the Dialogue With Trypho.” Vigiliae christianae 36: 209-32. 
  • Evans, Craig A. 2000. “Root causes of the Jewish-Christian rift from Jesus to Justin.” In Christian-Jewish relations through the centuries, 20-35. JSNT Supplements. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
  • Fédou, Michel. 2017. “La christologie patristique dans le contexte des débats avec les juifs.” Recherches de science religieuse 105: 39-56. 
  • Higgins, A. J. B. 1967. “Jewish Messianic Belief in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue With Trypho.” Novum Testamentum 9: 208-305. 
  • Hofer, Andrew. 2003. “The Old Man as Christ in Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho.” Vigiliae christianae 57: 1-21.
  • Horner, T. J. 1996. “The problem with Abraham: Justin Martyr’s use of Abraham in the “dialogue with Trypho a Jew”.” Churchman 110, no. 3: 230-50.
  • Jacobs, Andrew S. 2007. “Dialogical differences : (de-)judaizing Jesus’ circumcision.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 15: 291-335.
  • Nilson, Jon. 1977. “To whom is Justin’s “Dialogue with Trypho” addressed?” Theological Studies 38: 538-46.
  • Rajak, Tessa. 2001. “Talking at Trypho: Christian apologetic as anti-Judaism in Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho the Jew.” In The Jewish dialogue with Greece and Rome, 511-33. Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums. Leiden etc.: Brill.
  • Rokéah, David. 2002. Justin Martyr and the Jews. Jewish and Christian perspectives 5. Leiden etc.: Brill.
  • Rudolph, Annette. 2001. “”Abraham” in Justins Dialog mit dem Juden Tryphon.” Ostkirchliche Studien 50: 10-33.
  • Werline, Rodney Alan. 1999. “The transformation of Pauline arguments in Justin Martyr’s “Dialogue with Trypho”.” Harvard Theological Review 92: 79-93.
  • White, Benjamin L. 2018. “Justin between Paul and the Heretics. The salvation of Christian Judaizers in the Dialogue with Trypho.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 26: 163-89.
  • Wilhite, Shawn J. 2019. “‘Is the Lord One of the Two Angels?’ : Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho, Early Christian Hermeneutics, and Justin’s Pneumatological Christian Readings.” The Evangelical Quarterly 90: 164-81.