...the Law, which occur in the earliest part of it, to have assumed its present form not earlier than the end of the first, or the beginning of the second, century of our era. Rabbi Elieser, with whose name the treatise commences, died AD 73. Rabbi Joshua was his...

...the Law, which occur in the earliest part of it, to have assumed its present form not earlier than the end of the first, or the beginning of the second, century of our era. Rabbi Elieser, with whose name the treatise commences, died AD 73. Rabbi Joshua was his...

...Eleusis, of Mithras, or of Isis, had little or no influence upon the development of Christianity until the end of the first or the beginning of the second century after Christ. He would find far greater traces of them in Gnosticism. The author shows distinct independence...

...of this work after the middle of the second century,* de ( ; root and Laugen think that it belongs to the end of the first or the beginning of the second, f As this book alludes to the first destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70, but in no way refers...

...but which must have been composed by an Alexandrian Christian 1 Chap. xvi. 2Eph. i., Rom. i. towards the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, Jesus is spoken of as the being with whom the Father conversed when, at the moment in which He was...

...Barnabas, the companion of St. Paul, but which must have been composed by an Alexandrian Christian towards the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, Jesus is spoken of as the being with whom the Father conversed when, at the moment in which He was...

...and accurate translation of documents, to the originals of which no later date can be assigned than the end of the first or the beginning of the second century. How are we to fill up the gap between this period and the death of Christ ? We know that churches existed...

...the epistle which commonly bears that name, and which most modern critics regard as a work belonging to the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, but do not attribute to a companion of Paul) ; " the epistle of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians,'...

...They are all connected with Christianity by some form of the doctrine of incarnation. It was towards the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, that Gnosticism first attained any real importance as an element in ecclesiastical history. The Gnostic...

...conquered northwestern India as far as Benares. The best known among them was King Kanishka, who lived at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Christian era. He was a contemporary of the great Buddhist philosopher and saint Ashvaghosha,...