Talk:Philip the Arab and Christianity

Bibliographic notes

 * From Shahîd, Rome and the Arabs, 65–93.


 * Aigrin, R. "Arabie", Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastique 3 (1927), cols. 1166–67. [Not available through Google Books or the Internet Archive]
 * Grégoire, H. Les persécutions dans l'empire romain. Brussels, 1964. pp. 9–10, 89–91 n. 3.
 * Earlier ed. Brussels, 1950. pp. 11–12, 90–91 n. 3.


 * Downey, G. A History of Antioch in Syria. Princeton, 1961. pp. 306–8, esp. n. 140.
 * Neumann, Karl Johannes. Der romische Staat und die allgemeine Kirche bis auf Diocletian. Leipzig, 1890. 1.246–51.


 * From Barnes, 351 n. 95.


 * Crouzel, H. "Le christianisme de l'empereur Philippe l'Arabe," Gregorianum 56 (1975) 545–50.
 * Nautin, P. Origène (1977) 172f.


 * John York, whose "Image of Philip" is cited here, also wrote his doctoral thesis on this topic.


 * York, J. "Philip the Arab: The First Christian Emperor of Rome", University of Southern California (1964) 154 pp.

Resources for future consultation and expansion. Geuiwogbil (Talk) 09:50, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Article relies too much on Shahid
I don't think this article is GA material. It relies way too much on Shahid, with 95 citations on 181. It thus gives way too much weight to the minority view that Philip was Christian. Bowersock, who is cited in the article, does say that Shahid's view is "extreme". T8612 (talk) 15:14, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

"Views on Constantine" section fails to mention why Licinius is important
As I understand it Licinius claimed to be descended from Philip, hence why Constantine would try to smudge out Philip, right now the section doesn't really touch on that. ★Trekker (talk) 00:04, 6 August 2022 (UTC)