Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:02:43 AM No.17802433
A lot of lost texts would be awesome if they were found. Like Porphyry's "Against the Christians", it was a colossal 15 volume work taking attacking every aspect of Christianity from a philosophical and historical perspective. Porphyry had access to sources that we don't have, like histories of the Phoenecians (he was from Tyre himself). It was considered so searing that multiple Christian emperors had it banned and every copy burned, even mentioning his arguments was banned so books Christians wrote to rebut it didn't survive either. We've only got a few fragments via quotations, and even from those we know he prefigured a lot of what was later independently discovered by academic Biblical study, e.g. the book of Daniel being written during the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes (160s BC), not during the Babylonian exile.
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