St. Justin Martyr (ca. 100-ca. 165) is the first Christian apologist of non-Jewish heritage whose writings have survived. Justin was born near the site of modern Nablus, Israel, of parents who practiced the Roman religion. By 132 he had become a...

JUSTIN MARTYR (c. 100–163/5) is generally regarded as the most significant Christian apologist of the second century. With him Christianity moved from competition with the popular Hellenistic mystery cults, which attracted chiefly persons of...

Justin Martyr (also Justin the Martyr, Justin of Caesarea, Justin the Philosopher) (100–165) was an early Christian apologist and saint. His works represent the earliest surviving Christian apologies of notable...

The historiography of Judaism in the rabbinic period (together with its implications for the history of Christianity) had been, until quite recently, founded on the assumption that the kind of historical information that rabbinic legends could yield was somehow directly related to the...

"That wonderful man" (Tatian); "Ornament of our Faith" (Eusebius); "Unsurpassed in his knowledge of both Christian and pagan doctrines" (Photius); "One of the most original thinkers Christianity produced" (E.F.Osborn, Justin Martyr); "Most outstanding of the Apologists, the first Christian thinker to reconcile faith...