Pseudo-Justin Explained

Pseudo-Justin is the designation used by scholars for the anonymous author of any work falsely attributed to Justin Martyr, such as the following:

• Exhortation to the Greeks
• Oratio ad Graecos
• Answers to the Orthodox Faithful Concerning Some Necessary Questions (Latin: Quaestiones et responsiones ad orthodoxos)^[1]
• De resurrectione, possibly written by Athenagoras of Athens or Hippolytus of Rome^[2]
• Expositio rectae fidei, possibly written by Theodoret of Cyrrhus^[3]
• De monarchia, which contains a poem by Pseudo-Orpheus^[4]

Notes and References

1. Toth . Peter . 2014-10-01 . New questions on old answers: Towards a critical edition of the Answers to the Orthodox of Pseudo-Justin . The Journal of Theological Studies . 65 . 2 . 550–599 . 10.1093/jts/flu110 . 0022-5185 . 43665441.
2. Whealey . A. . 2006 . Pseudo-Justin's De resurrectione: Athenagoras or Hippolytus? . 20474781 . Vigiliae Christianae . 60 . 4 . 420–430 . 10.1163/157007206778926364 . 0042-6032.
3. Sellers . R. V. . 1945 . Pseudo-Justin's Expositio rectae fidei: A work of Theodoret of Cyrus . 23956961 . The Journal of Theological Studies . o.s. . 46 . 183/184 . 145–160 . en . 10.1093/jts/os-XLVI.183-184.145 . 0022-5185.
4. Book: Holladay, Carl R. . Pseudo-Orpheus: Tracking a tradition . 1998 . 192–220 . Brill . en . 10.1163/9789004267367_014 . 978-90-04-26736-7 . The early church in its context: Essays in honor of Everett Ferguson . Malherbe . Abraham J. . Norris . Frederick W. . Thompson . James W..