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Boer offers a reliable introduction to the history of the early church, providing background on the world into which the church was born, as he surveys the life of the church from the ministry of Jesus to AD 600. He examines the effects of persecution and heresy on the church and explains the role of several key church leaders. The author elucidates the church’s ongoing struggle to formulate...

The rebellion against Seleucid rule that now broke out in full strength (163 B.C.) was led by an aged priest named Mattathias and his four sons. Of these, Judas was the leader. Together they are known as the Maccabees, that is, men who fight violently. In 141 the Jews gained complete victory over their Seleucid enemies, and for the first time since 586 B.C. Israel again became an independent nation. She kept her freedom only eighty years. In 63 B.C., civil war in Palestine gave occasion to Rome to
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