Jayrok

Justin Martyr's Dialogue With Trypho reminds me a little of Stobel's "Case For Christ" in that Justin makes an assertion about Jesus regarding the Hebrew Scriptures and Trypho seems to accept it is "ok, that's good enough for me... next issue."

I was wondering... was there ever a response published by Jewish opposition from those days? Or anything that may have survived the times?

aa5874

But, Trypho did not accept Justin Martyr's Christ. It was not ok at all. There were fundamental disagreements between Trypho and Justin.

Justin Martyr would claim that Jesus was the offspring of a Virgin as found in Hebrew Scripture but Trypho would declare such to be a monstrous phenomena just like the fables of the Greeks.

Trypho considered the birth of Jesus no different to the birth of Greek mythological Gods.

This is Justin Martyr in "Dialogue with Trypho" Now, if there was no actual Jesus, and that stories about him were written at around the end of the 1st century, then it would likely take years before the Jesus story would have any major impact. And the 2nd century may have been the first time Jews became aware of a character called Jesus the Christ born of the Holy Ghost and a Virgin.

Doug Shaver

So far as I'm aware, no Jewish document from the first or second century critical of Christianity, whether or not it was a direct response to any Christian writing, has survived. My awareness, however, is a long way from exhaustive.