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In 362/363 the Roman emperor Julian composed a treatise titled Against the Galileans in which he set forth his reasons for abandoning Christianity and returning to devotion to the traditional Greco-Roman deities. Sixty years later Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, composed a response. His resulting treatise Against Julian would dwarf the size of Julian's original work and in fact serves as our primary source for the fragments of it that have survived. Julian's treatise was the most sophisticated critique of Christianity to have been composed in antiquity and Cyril's rebuttal was equally learned. The Christian bishop not only responded directly to Julian's own words but drew upon a wide range of ancient literature, including poetry, history, philosophy, and religious works to undermine the emperor's critiques of the Christian Bible and bolster the intellectual legitimacy of Christian belief and practice. This is the first full translation of the work into English.

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MATTHEW R. CRAWFORD is a professor in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, where he serves as Director of the Biblical and Early Christian Studies Program. He has written books on Cyril of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea, in addition to editing volumes on Tatian's Diatesseron and Christian intellectual culture in late antiquity. AARON P. JOHNSON is Professor of Classics and Humanities at Lee University, Tennessee. He has written extensively on intellectual culture in Late Antiquity with books focused on Eusebius of Caesarea and Porphyry of Tyre.

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