The Boston Globe, March 13th, 1987
PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS, by Robin Lane Fox. Knopf. 799 pp. $35. Though numbers are unguessable, the religion that grew from Jesus' ministry may have involved no more than 4 or 5 percent of the Roman Empire, even by the time of the Emperor Constantine's surprising conversion nearly three centuries after the death of Christ. Third-century Christians were scattered through all ranks of the steeply pyramidal imperial society, but almost all among urban speakers of the major languages (Greek and Latin, a little Syriac and Coptic). This "small but extremely articulate minority" left a literature that ...
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