Justin is an early Christian figure who is very much of his own time, yet his ideas and intellectual legacy transcend temporal confines. He does not represent just a snapshot of the Christianity of Rome in the mid-second century, but was a courageous figure who challenged the prevailing philosophical systems of his own day with a muscular and robust presentation of Christian thought. Rather Justin, leader of a `schoolchurch' in Rome, is a key figure in the early development of Christianity. Some of the ideas he offered remain central to Christian thinking.
A. W. F. Blunt (ed.), The Apologies of Justin Martyr (Cambridge: CUP, 1911): Greek text with lucid notes.
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M. Marcovich (ed.), Iustini Martyris Apologiae pro Christianis, Patristische Texte und Studien38 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1997): critical edition of the Greek text with good references to parallels in classical and early Christian literature.
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C. Munier (ed.), Justin, Apologie pour les Chrétiens, Sources chrétiennes507 (Paris: du Cerf, 2006): Greek text, French translation, extensive notes.
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L.W. Barnard, St. Justin Martyr, The First and Second Apologies, Ancient Christian Writers 56 (New York: Paulist Press, 1997).
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M. Marcovich (ed.), Iustini Martyris Dialogus cum Tryphone, Patristische Texte und Studien47 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1997): companion volume to Marcovich's edition of the Apologies, in the same format.
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P. Bobichon (ed.), Justin Martyr, Dialogue avec Tryphon, 2 vols., Paradosis 47/1-2 (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2003): excellent edition of the Greek text with French translation and extensive commentary.
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T.B. Falls, St. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, rev. Thomas P. Halton, Michael Slusser (ed.), Selections from the Fathers of the Church 3 (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2003).
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M. Slusser, `Justin Scholarship, Trends and Trajectories', in Justin Martyr and His Worlds , ed. Sara Parvis and Paul Foster (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2007), 13-21.
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L.W. Barnard, Justin Martyr: His Life and Thought (Cambridge: CUP, 1967).
