ABSTRACT
An important task of the Dialogue was to demonstrate the inadequacy of “demiurgical” forms of Christianity, thus continuing the anti-heretical battles waged earlier in Justin’s career. This chapter demonstrates that virtually every topic in the Dialogue is immediately pertinent to the contest between Justin’s kind of Christianity and those of his rivals and, moreover, that there are a substantial number of moments throughout the Dialogue in which Justin responds to an issue that is relevant to his internal debate with the “demiurgists” more so than to his conversation with Trypho (and Jews more generally).
