Excerpt from Historical Setting of the Early GospelThe sources are the books of the New Testament and the literature of the first three centuries, together with the inscriptions recovered from the sands of Egypt. Be sides the great classic histories of Rome by Merivale, Mommsen (german and English translation), and G. Ferrero (italian and English translation), consult S. Dill, Roman Society from the Time of Nero to Marcus Aurelius, 1905. Ernest Renan, marc-aurele et la fin du Monde Antique, 3d edition, 1882. G. A. Deissmann, Licht vom Osten, 2d edition, 1909 (german and Eu glish translation). A. Harnack, Die Mission und Aus breitung des Christentums, 92d edition, 1906 (german and English translation of first edition). A. Ritschl.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.