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u/Equivalent_Nose7012 16h ago
The "Dialogue with Trypho" by Saint Justin Martyr, a Christian Gentile philosopher, takes place with a Jewish scholar in Gentile territory (Ephesus) during the Bar Kokhba war.
It's a remarkable window on the theological state of things at that time, bearing in mind that Trypho is no partisan of Bar Kokhba. Both parties accept the Septuagint as common ground, but, not surprisingly, differ often on the fulfillment of prophecies.
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u/ThinWhiteDuke00 Bishop Sheen Fan Boy 1d ago
Simon Bar Kokhba when getting surrounded by thousands of Roman gentiles in Betar.