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The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

Name: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
Author: Robert Louis Wilken
ISBN: 9780300098396

Robert Louis Wilken

238 pages

Yale University Press

Apr 2003

Paperback

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This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.

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With such people, says Galen, it is pointless to engage in serious discussion. It is, he continues, the same with Christians and Jews. “For one might more easily teach novelties to the followers of Moses and Christ than to the physicians and philosophers who cling fast to their schools. So in the end I decided that I should avoid unnecessary talk by having nothing to do with them at all…”

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In another fragment Galen, speaking of the opinions of certain physicians, says," They compare those who practice medicine without scientific knowledge to Moses, who framed laws for the tribe of Israel, since it is his method in his books to write without offering proofs, saying' God commanded, God spake'" (On Hippocrates's Anatomy)

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Pages 238

Publisher Yale University Pres...

Published 2003

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