...ancient world to which it had given such toughness and energy of purpose was on its death-bed. With the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century it enters upon its last agony ; a general failure of nerve had long threatened the loosely bound masses...

...hundred years following the destruction of the Temple.334 The later Galilean synagogues built from the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century onwards do not seem to have been direct continuations of the synagogues which existed in Second Temple...

...her arrangements to induce Constantine to end these heretical movements. In Marutha's lifetime — ie the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century — the Kyriakos and Protonike legends were not so widespread and developed in the Syriac-speaking...

...in the name of Rabbi Abbahu, who was a resident of Caesarea and head of its theological academy at the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century AD. As such, he obviously gave reliable contemporary evidence about what was actually performed in...

...masculine and the feminine could be usedMonasticism began with the end of the persecutions, toward the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century, almost simultaneously in both Egypt and Palestine.' Since the time when the first monks left the villages...

...Treta and sacrifice typical of the Dvapara.16 As shown earlier, the earliest Kali is associated with the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century AD. We find elaborate treatment given to gift making from the Gupta period onwards. A large portion...

...Principles. The authors of these books are of a variety of nationalities. In following period, meaning the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century, the writing of compilations of narratives became widespread. Those narrative compilations are the books...

...Babylonian Talmud credits the notion to a certain R. Simlai, a Palestinian rabbi who was active about the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century, a man whose reported expertise lay in aggada, not halaka, and consequently someone who stood outside...

...widows are constantly mentioned. The reference in 1 Tim. v. is plainly to widows in some recognised position. Ignatius greets them, placing them immediately...Church. Towards the end of the third and the beginning Changes. 349 of the fourth century they are everywhere replaced by deaconesses. The reasons of the...

...a prolific and polished author. Chronologically, his works can only be assigned in a general way to the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century. He became of special importance in the history of theological literature, in that he successfully combated...