Justin Martyr and Philosopher (c. 100-c. 165) First Apology addressed to Antonius Pius and his adopted sons. How would you date the apology? Hint: Look up Apol Dialog with Trypho is placed in the time of Jewish War. Justin’s birth place: Flavia Neapolis (Nablus) in Palestine
Hadrian ( ) Hadrian sacrificing to Apollo
Bar-Kokhba’s revolt and Jewish War ( )
Antoninus Pius ( )
Pagan caricature of the Christian God (see Octavius 9. 3)
Creation ex nihilo in the Septuagint (not Tanakh) The mother of the seven Maccabean brothers, addressing her youngest son, about to be killed by Antiochus Epiphanes IV: “I beg you, child, to look at the heavens and the earth and see all that is in them; then you will know that God did not make them out of existing things; and in the same way the human race came into existence. (2 Maccabees 7: 28).”
Mysterious Lady addresses Hermas: “ God, who dwells in the heavens, and made out of nothing the things that exist, and multiplied and increased them on account of His holy Church, is angry with you for having sinned against me. ” Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 1. 1.
Church of Santa Sabina in Rome (5 th c.).Female figures personifying “the church of the circumcised” and “the church of the Gentiles”
Triclinum Mithraeum (1 st c. C. E.) under the Church of San Clemente in Rome
Ignatius of Antioch Polycarp Irenaeus of Lyons Marcion; Justin 105?-165? Valentinus 130?-180? Ptolemy Clement of Alexandria ? Hippolytus Tertullian Origen 112 p. Trajan p. Decius 177 m. Vienne & Lyons 203 m. Perpetua
Map 2 nd c.