Aristo of Pella, in Jordan (at one time the capital of Alexander the Great), flourished somewhere between 135 and 178 CE and was a Greek writer of Christian apologetics. The chief text attributed to him is a record of a dispute; this text, entitled The Dialogue between Jason and Papiscus, claims to be the exchange between (the Christian) Jason and (the Jew) Papiscus, and it is regarded as the first …