Person
Porphyry
about 234–305
Pagan philosopher
Attested. The work and the fragments are real. Reconstructing the whole book is incomplete.
Porphyry, a Neoplatonist and student of Plotinus, wrote Against the Christians. The work was later burned and survives in fragments and in Christian replies. He pressed historical and literary criticisms of the gospels and of Daniel. Christian emperors treated the book as dangerous. It is a major non-Christian reading of the scriptures.
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Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
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