conventicle in a corner of the mud. It is not known how many were Christians at the time of Celsus (the Jewish population of the empire may have been about 6.6-10% in a population of 60 million to quote one reference). References Bibliography Sources Further reading Theodor Keim, Gegen die Christen. (1873) [Celsus' wahres Wort], Reprint Matthes & Seitz, München 1991 () Pélagaud, Etude sur Celse (1878) K. J. Neumann's edition in Scriptores Graeci qui Christianam impugnaverunt religionem article in Hauck-Herzog's Realencyk. für prot. Theol. where a very full bibliography is given W. Moeller, History of the Christian Church, i.169 ff. Adolf Harnack, Expansion of Christianity, ii. 129 if. J. A. Froude, Short Studies, iv. Bernhard Pick, "The Attack of Celsus on Christianity," The Monist, Vol. XXI, 1911. Des Origenes: Acht Bücher gegen Celsus. Übersetzt von Paul Koetschau. Josef Kösel Verlag. München. 1927. Celsus: Gegen die Christen. Übersetzt von Th. Keim (1873) [Celsus' wahres Wort], Reprint Matthes & Seitz, München 1991 () Die »Wahre Lehre« des Kelsos. Übersetzt und erklärt von Horacio E. Lona. Reihe: Kommentar zu frühchristlichen Apologeten (KfA, Suppl.-Vol. 1), hrsg. v. N. Brox, K. Niederwimmer, H. E. Lona, F. R. Prostmeier, J. Ulrich. Verlag Herder, Freiburg u.a. 2005 () "Celsus the Platonist", Catholic Encyclopedia article Dr. B.A. Zuiddam, "Old Critics and Modern Theology", Dutch Reformed Theological Journal (South Africa), part xxxvi, number 2, June 1995. Stephen Goranson, "Celsus of Pergamum: Locating a Critic of Early Christianity", in D. R. Edwards and C. T. McCollough (eds), The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the "Other" in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2007) (Information Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 60/61). External links Origen's Text on Celsus full text of The Arguments of Celsus Against the Christians in Google Books 2nd-century Christianity 2nd-century philosophers Hellenistic-era philosophers Pagan anti-Gnosticism Critics of Christianity Year of birth missing Year of death missing