Jews Under Roman Rule e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The epoch of which this volume professes to treat embraces a period of about three hundred years 164 to ad. And has an intimate bearing on one of the most momentous turning-points in the history of the world. The first half of this period is almost co-incident with the formation of the great confederation of Medi terranean states under the supremacy of Rome - a confederation which constituted the most important external preparation for the success of Christianity; the second half is co-incident with the birth develop ment and primitive organization of the Christian faith. These are events which gave a new direction to the history of humanity in the West they are the starting-points of a fresh era in the life of the world unlike some of the records of antiquity, an account of them is not merely a revelation of what has tran spired in the past; at the present moment they are still exercising an immense influence on the deepest sentiments of mankind.