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Dialogue with Heraclides

Written about 244 to 249, perhaps in Arabia (Roman province), now southern Syria and Jordan, region. The date is disputed or rests on weak evidence.

The record of a church meeting where Origen questioned a bishop about the Father and the Son.

Dialogue · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written not sure

Scherer, Entretien d'Origène avec Héraclide (Sources chrétiennes 67, 1960)

Place written not sure

The record of a synod of bishops, most likely in Roman Arabia; the town is not named (Scherer 1960)