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Light from the Ancient East uses non-biblical, non-literary Greek and Latin ancient texts to shed light on the social, cultural and religious setting in which the NT was written. The work is intended for the general reader or non-specialist. Author Adolf Deissmann is often mentioned in the same breath as James H. Moulton, George Milligan, A. T. Robertson, and Frederick W. Danker.

Perhaps the most remarkable discovery of this kind in the new texts is a parallel found some time ago to the statement in Luke 2:3, which has been so much questioned on the strength of mere book-learning, that on the occasion of the enrolment for taxation made by Cyrenius, “all went to enrol themselves, every one to his own city.”1 That this was no mere figment of St. Luke or his authority, but that similar things2 took place in that age, is proved by an edict3 of G. Vibius Maximus, governor
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