# Talk:Philip the Arab and Christianity

I have no Greek and no Latin, so someone else should check that the quoted texts correspond exactly with the best modern editions; also that they correspond to the quoted translations. Geuiwogbil (Talk) 00:19, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
We should check the Sibyllene Oracles at 13.88, with the commentary of D. S. Potter in Prophecy on p. 267f., following the citation in the Cambridge Ancient History2 at 12.626 n. 103. Shahîd does not reference this oracles, a silence significant enough for Bowersock to remark on it in his review of Rome and the Arabs. Geuiwogbil (Talk) 03:39, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
The CAH2 also speaks obliquely of Decius' persecution as a possible cause of the Philip-as-Christian meme at 12.622 and n. 94. Not sure if there is enough to use as reference. (Nor where I would put it in the article.) Geuiwogbil (Talk) 03:45, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Our readers are most likely not able to read that or even render the letters. Remove that stuff and replace it with a footnote where the sources can be found. Wandalstouring (talk) 09:46, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
I do not understand what you are asking of me. I have not consulted these works, so it would be inappropriate to "remove that stuff" (from where?) and "replace it with a footnote" (where? for what reason?) "where the sources can be found" (I am not sure whether the "where" here refers to the location where the footnote should be placed or the content of the footnote itself). Under any interpretation of your text, however, I am going to have to reject your advice. These notes are for my consultation (and the consultation of other content editors) only. Geuiwogbil (Talk) 08:15, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Another option would be to put the letters in the reference notes at the bottom of the article.  It would help the flow of the article. {Cmguy777 (talk) 01:29, 1 January 2010 (UTC)}
If you mean the Greek and Latin, I should say no, I disagree. We do not cater to the general reader alone; if a person cannot read Greek or Latin, he will move past it without trouble, or read the translation alone. If he can read Greek and Latin, however, he will find them a real aid to understanding the issue at hand, and to developing his own judgment on the matter. Geuiwogbil (Talk) 08:15, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
The only other suggestion I would make is to keep them in the article, but create another separate section titled Greek and Latin transcripts.  You can do what you believe to be best for the article. {Cmguy777 (talk) 00:11, 2 January 2010 (UTC)}

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)

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)

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)