The Neo-Platonic Jew-Hater: Porphyry of Tyre on the Jews
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Porphyry of Tyre - like Celsus the Epicurean who he was influenced by - (1) was a pagan intellectual who wrote one of the best known anti-Christian works of the late classical world ‘Against the Christians’ of which we only have fragments that have been preserved in the works of several of the Fathers of the Church and the early Christian intellectuals notably Eusebius of Caesarea, Jerome and Macarius. Unlike Origen who quoted Celsus’ own words extensively these other Christian thinkers chose to attack Porphyry’s arguments without quoting them in the main, so we are forced to work heavily from a selection of fragments in their writings on the presumption that they are not misrepresenting Porphyry’s arguments.
The Neo-Platonic Jew-Hater: Porphyry of Tyre on the Jews
The Neo-Platonic Jew-Hater: Porphyry of Tyre…
The Neo-Platonic Jew-Hater: Porphyry of Tyre on the Jews
Porphyry of Tyre - like Celsus the Epicurean who he was influenced by - (1) was a pagan intellectual who wrote one of the best known anti-Christian works of the late classical world ‘Against the Christians’ of which we only have fragments that have been preserved in the works of several of the Fathers of the Church and the early Christian intellectuals notably Eusebius of Caesarea, Jerome and Macarius. Unlike Origen who quoted Celsus’ own words extensively these other Christian thinkers chose to attack Porphyry’s arguments without quoting them in the main, so we are forced to work heavily from a selection of fragments in their writings on the presumption that they are not misrepresenting Porphyry’s arguments.