When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

By the fourth century Christianity becomes the state religion and by the end of the fourth century it is illegal to do any form of public worship other than Christianity in the entire Roman Empire.

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...

How Hellenized was the Jewish religious culture of the time ... had begun after the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century, B.C.E. One must think of the development of the eastern ...