Apology in the book, allowed for the text to remain extant the entire time and influence Christian perception of Buddhism. Only with the rediscovery of the Apology in 1878 and 1889, did it reappear in history books. Rendel Harris, J.A. Robinson and few European scholars provided some commentary and studies of the text in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There has been little revisionist history on the Apology of late, except for an article by G.C. O'Ceallaigh in 1958. He suggested the Apology was a Jewish work of the 2nd century and was then edited by a Christian writer in the 4th century to be a Christian apology. W. Fairweather, D.W. Palmer and Massey Hamilton Shepherd Jr. have used the Apology of Aristides, and other apologists' works, in order to support their theories on early Christian thought and Greek apologists of the 2nd century. See also Apology of Aristides Christian apologetics Early centers of Christianity#Greece References Citations Sources Further reading External links Translation of 1891 Syriac version of the Apology of Aristides 2nd-century Christian saints 2nd-century Athenians 2nd-century philosophers 2nd-century Christian theologians Christian apologists Saints of Roman Athens Ancient Greek writers