What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

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What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

In the original Latin

Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymnis?

Tertullian

220

★ 7.1

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Athens and Jerusalem Athens Jerusalem Philosophy Religion

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Question

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Religious literature

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Treatise

Time

220 Early Christianity

Person

Tertullian

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Citation

Tertullian. De Praescriptione Haereticorum [On the Prescription of Heretics]. c. 1892, ch. 7.

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