The History of Christianity in Egypt

There's quite a lot of evidence that the Christians were not negligible even if they were 10%. I mean, for one thing, you have the Christian apologists and the polemic going on in the third century like Kelsus and Porphy. The fact that someone as great as Porphyry would write whole books against the Christian just shows you. Some hint that he may even have been quite exposed to it actually and didn't like it. Now, also, something we've been doing for many years at Macquarie is looking at the papyrus from this time. These are pieces of, not quite paper, but writing material made from the papyrus plant that was to survive quite