3 Die Herkunft der Christen in der Apologie des Aristides: Baustein zu einem Kommentar

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This chapter by Michael Lattke (The University of Queensland), “Die Herkunft der Christen in der Apologie des Aristides: Baustein zu einem Kommentar” [“The Origin of the Christians in the Apology of Aristides: Contribution to a Commentary”], is one of 23 chapters in the Festschrift for Professor Pauline Allen (Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University): Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, volume 132; Leiden/Boston: Brill 2015) 48–63. At the beginning of the 4th century Eusebius wrote in his Church History (4.3.3): “A man of faith and devoted to our religion, Aristides has also, like Quadratus, left us a defense of the faith addressed to Hadrian. Many still preserve copies of this work also, even to the present day.” [ET Paul L. Maier 1999, 2007, 119] Aristides probably addressed the emperor Antoninus Pius (138–161) and not Hadrian (117–138) in the early 40s of the 2nd century when

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