Porphyry's "Against the Christians" offers an important example of Hellenic Biblical criticism and a critique of Christianity at the close of Late Antiquity, fl. 300 C.E.

Robert M. Berchman, Ph.D. (1984) in Religious Studies, Brown University, is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Dowling College, and a senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He has published in Philo of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Plotinus, and Porphyry.