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4 days ago · Christianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus (c. 27 –29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles (c. 100) and is thus also known as the Apostolic Age.
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3 days ago · Judaism, as the Jewish religion came to be known in the 1st century ce, was based on ancient Israelite religion, shorn of many of its Canaanite characteristics but with the addition of important features from Babylonia and Persia. The Jews differed from other people in the ancient world because they believed that there was only one God.
3 days ago · Matthew places the birth Jesus at least two years before the death late in 5 bce or early in 4 bce of Herod the Great. Luke connects Jesus’ birth with a Roman census that, according to Josephus, occurred in 6–7 ce and caused a revolt against the governor Quirinius.
1 day ago · Christianity, major religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century ce. It has become the largest of the world’s religions and, geographically, the most widely diffused of all faiths.
1 day ago · 1st century AD: The first use of respiratory protective equipment is documented by Pliny the Elder (c. 23 AD –79) using animal bladder skins to protect workers in Roman mines from red lead oxide dust.
2 days ago · Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects.
3 days ago · In the 1st century Rome showed no interest in making the Jews in Palestine and other parts of the empire conform to common Greco-Roman culture. A series of decrees by Julius Caesar, Augustus, the Roman Senate, and various city councils permitted Jews to keep their own customs, even when they were antithetical to Greco-Roman culture.
