6. B. Bagatti, "San Giustino nella sua patria," AugR 19 (1979): 319–31; A. G.
xii Introduction to this Edition select bibliography. Ideally, the present translation should be used in conjunction with the works so noted.
Even down to the present, little enough is known about the person and works of Justin, apart from what he tells us about himself in his two works accepted as genuine, and the entry in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 4.18. A. Hamman provides a plausible chronology,4 situating the first forty years of this Greekspeaking Roman citizen, a son of pagan parents, in the Roman colony of Flavia Neapolis, in Palestine (modern Nablus), surrounded by Samaritans and Palestinians.
Hamman would place his first visit to Rome circa 140, followed by a return to Palestine (151–55), during which the Dialogue may have been composed, and a second stay in Rome
(155/56–65/66). At Flavia Neapolis he had at his disposal a variety of philosophical schools, which he sampled in quest of the true philosophy, a desire that was satisfied by his conversion to Christianity. There have been widely different assessments of the nature and extent of his philosophical training, particularly his so-called "Platonism."5
On the date and setting of the Dialogue there is still no unanimity; the statement in Eusebius, however, "He also composed against the Jews a Dialogue that he held in the city of Ephesus with Trypho, a most distinguished Jew of the time," has been under severe challenge. Recent articles by Bagatti and Hamman have proposed Caesarea as a more likely venue.6 Falls's rejection of the identification of Trypho with the Rabbi Tarphon has been confirmed by more recent studies.7
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4. "Essai de chronologie de la vie et des oeuvres de Justin," AugR 35 (1995):
231–39.
5. This is well summarised in C. Nahm, "The Debate on the Platonism of Justin Martyr," Second Century 9.3 (1992): 129–51. Also valuable are C. J. de Vogel, "Problems Concerning Justin Martyr: Did Justin Find a Certain Continuity between Greek Philosophy and Christian Faith?" Mnemosyne 31 (1978):
360–88; G. Girgenti, "Giustino martire, il primo platonico cristiano," Rivista filosofica neo-scolastica 82 (1990): 214–55; M. J. Edwards, "On the Platonic
Schooling of Justin Martyr," JThS, n.s., 42 (1991): 17–34.
6. B. Bagatti, "San Giustino nella sua patria," AugR 19 (1979): 319–31; A. G.
Hamman (cited above, n 4).
7. N. Hyldahl, "Tryphon und Tarphon," Studia Theologica 10 (1956): 77–88; J. D. Gereboff, Rabbi Tarfon: the tradition, the man and early Rabbinic Judaism,
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