By the mid-second century Christian writers were engaging in debates with educated audiences from non-Jewish Graeco-Roman cultural backgrounds. A remarkable feature of some of the texts from this period is how extensively they refer to the Jewish scriptures, even though those scriptures were unfamiliar to non-Jewish Graeco-Romans. In this book, Jeremy Hudson explores why this should have been so by examining three works by Christian converts originally educated in Graeco-Roman traditions: Justin Martyr's First Apology, Tatian's Oratio and Theophilus of Antioch's Ad Autolycum. Hudson considers their literary strategies, their use of quotations and allusions and how they present the Jewish scriptures; all against the background of the Graeco-Roman literary culture familiar to both authors and audiences.
| ISBN: | 9781526310316 |
| Publication date: | 8th July 2021 |
| Author: | Nancy Dickmann |
| Illustrator: | Andrés Landazábal |
| Publisher: | Wayland an imprint of Hachette Children's Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 32 pages |
| Series: | Big Questions, Big World |
| Genres: |
PSHE: Self-Awareness, Self-Esteem and Wellbeing |