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How is it that a first-generation Jewish messianic movement undertook a mission to the pagan world and rapidly achieved a momentum that would have a lasting and significant impact on world history? This momentous question has surprisingly eluded the concentrated focus of historians and New Testament scholars. Perhaps it is because the story of early Christian mission encompasses so much of the...

ingens) of Christians that was indicted in the burning of Rome, many of whom were executed in the persecution instigated by Nero (Tacitus, Ann. 15.44; cf. 1 Clem. 6:1). Suetonius refers to the Christiani who had been condemned to death in this persecution as “a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition” (genus hominum superstitionis novae ac maleficae [Suetonius, Nero 16.2]). In A.D. 111/112 Pliny the Younger, the governor of the province of Bithynia-Pontus, complained in a letter
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