Editing Justin Martyr (section)

=== Other sources ===
Justin includes a tract on Greek mythology in ''1 Apol''. 54 and ''Dial''. 69 which asserts that myths about various pagan deities are imitations of the prophecies about Christ in the Old Testament.  There is also a small tract in ''1 Apol''. 59–60 on borrowings of the philosophers from Moses, particularly Plato.  These two tracts may be from the same source, which may have been an early Christian ''Apology''.<ref name="Skarsaune 1987 pp. 52–53,148–150,431">Skarsaune (1987) ''The Proof From Prophecy'' pp.&nbsp;52–53,148–150,431; p.&nbsp;150 – "This tract must have had a somewhat other orientation than the source employed by Justin in ''1 Apol''. 32–35.  It was not concerned with a prophecy–fulfillment scheme, but with correspondence between OT texts and Greek mythology."  p.&nbsp;53 – "It is unlikely that it (the text in ''1 Apol''. 60:9 introduced as a prophecy of Moses) ever occurred in a Bible text...it is more likely that Justin took it from the source which also provided him with the (harmonistic) 'citations' from Plato in A 60.&nbsp;... In this case we have reason to suspect a tractate of some kind, which included Plato quotations as well." p.&nbsp;431 – "It remains to be remarked that Justin also has made other additions from sources containing OT material, but these are strictly speaking not parts of the scriptural proof.  In ''1 Apol''. 54f and ''Dial''. 69f Justin has added material from a source which was occupied with demonic imitations of OT Messianic prophecies, and in ''1 Apol''. 59f he has a little tract on philosophic borrowings from Moses.  One should not exclude the possibility that these two blocks of material derive from the same source, which might well be an earlier Christian ''Apology''."</ref>