The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, Volume 1 (Biblia.com)

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A highly significant set of volumes, Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries (2 Vols.) is the first attempt ever to chronicle the history of missions from the first three centuries, although church history and dogma have previously been charted. Topics covered in volume one include a discussion of the diffusion and limits of Judaism, external conditions assisting with...

been murdered by them.1 As for the number of Jews in Rome, we have these two statements: first, that in B.C. 4 a Jewish embassy from Palestine to the metropolis was joined by 8000 local Jews (Joseph., Antiq., xvii. 2. 1; Bell., ii. 6. 1); and secondly, that in 19 A.D., when Tiberius banished the whole Jewish community from Rome, 4000 able-bodied Jews were deported to Sardinia. The latter statement merits especial attention, as it is handed down by Tacitus as well as Josephus.2 After the fall of Sejanus,

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