Aristo of Pella

Aristo of Pella
Religion Christian

Aristo of Pella, Jordan (Gr. Αρίστων) (mid 2nd century) was a hellenized Jewish Christian writer (see Hellenistic Judaism), who like Hegesippus represents a school of thought more liberal than that of the Pharisaic and Essene Ebionites.

Aristo is cited by Eusebius[1][2] for a decree of Hadrian respecting the Jews, but he is best known as the writer of a Dialogue between an Alexandrian Jew named Papiscus, and Jason (who represents the author) on the witness of prophecy to Jesus Christ, which was approvingly defended by Origen against the reproaches of Celsus (Contra Celsum, iv.52). His writings were perhaps used by Justin Martyr in his own Dialogue with Trypho, and probably also by Tertullian and Cyprian; only quotations have survived of his writings.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Ecclesiastical History iv.6.3
  2. ^ Emil Schürer (1885) The history of the Jewish people in the age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135) T&T Clark Ltd, 1973, G. Britain, vol.1, pp. 37,38.
  3. ^ Robert M. Grant, Second-Century Christianity, A Collection of Fragments (SPCK, 1946).

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.