Authors:Justin Martyr, Michael Slusser, Justin,
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: church, fathers, selections, trypho, dialogue
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813213428
ISBN-13: 9780813213422

Outside the New Testament, our earliest complete witness to Christian apologetic against the Jews remains the Dialogue with Trypho, written by Justin Martyr (d. ca. 165), a convert to Christianity from traditional Greek religion. The Dialogue purports to be a two-day dialogue that took place in Asia Minor between Justin and Trypho, a Hellenized Jew. Justin argues extensively on the basis of lengthy Old Testament quotations that Christ is the Messiah and God incarnate, and that the Christian community is the new Israel. In the beginning of the work Justin recounts how he converted to Christiani

Authors:Ezra Pound, Olivia Rossetti Agresti, Demetres Trypho
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: olivia, rossetti, agresti, letters, pound, yowl, ezra, cease
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0252024109
ISBN-13: 9780252024108

This collection of never-before-published correspondence between Pound and Agresti, begun in 1937 and continuing through Pound’s incarceration at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.--where he was found mentally unfit to stand trial for treason--reveals the depth and breadth of his many virulent views against the politics of the Second World War.