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  • 17 - The origins and spread of Christianity

  • from PART IV - ROMAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE UNDER THE JULIO-CLAUDIANS
  • Edited by Alan K. Bowman, University of Oxford, Edward Champlin, Princeton University, New Jersey, Andrew Lintott, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Ancient History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    08 February 1996, pp 848-872

  • Summary

    The Pentecostal scene in Jerusalem, as depicted in Acts 2:9ff, has Peter preaching to Jews who have gathered in Jerusalem from the Diaspora. Antioch is depicted by Paul as well as by the author of Acts as the fons et origo of 'Gentile Christianity': here the process of Christian self-identification is declared to have its beginning. Some sort of control over the estimate of the social spread of Christianity in the generation between the thirties and the sixties might be sought in the onomastics of the Pauline connexion, from an examination of the sixty-six named individuals in the genuinely Pauline documents or of the full register of some ninety-seven names if one includes in the tally the pastorals as well. All known is that Claudius 'expelled from Rome Jews who were causing continual disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus'. Tacitus is the original source to connect the fire of Rome under Nero with Christians.