One of the many curious things about Tertullian’s Athens-Jerusalem binary, is that when Tertullian wrote Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymis?, Jerusalem was Aelia Capitolina. A ‘pagan’ city.
De Praescriptione Haereticorum, 7.7–10
Athens & Jerusalem —
One of the many curious things about Tertullian’s Athens-Jerusalem binary, is that when Tertullian wrote Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymis?, Jerusalem was Aelia Capitolina. A ‘pagan’ city.
De Praescriptione Haereticorum, 7.7–10
D. L. Dusenbury 