The Early Church, pt. 1 -- Christianity on the Road
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Christianity in the Middle East
There was this significant cleavage between what you might call jewish christians, who were stronger in palestine and in syria and eastward. And pauline christians, especially in greece and asia minor and further west, in areas where there were greek speaking jews and gentiles. So if we talk first about just that western branch, it seems that there was the formation of a very strong group in antioch. It was this group that probably composed the gospel of matthew, and maybe also the dedace about christian practices. They were the first to use the word christian, christiano. From these places like ant Antioch, it spread ther
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