Philo and Josephus Against Appian - A Firm Defense of Judaism

Philosophers Philo and Josephus hardly represent all Jewish worshipers of the first century. But they do represent the Mediterranean world's educated religious class, writes David Frum. They found Christianity objectionable on basis of its exclusivity more than its widespread notions of a son of a god, he says. So the first and most important reason for Christianity's immediate expansion may have been once again simply that it wanted to expand.