Abstract
Rodney Stark's article on the relation of early Christianity to cities produces impressive statistical results showing that population had some relation to where Christianity spread, but that distance from Jerusalem and Romanization were strong negative factors, and that there was a high correlation between presence of a synagogue in a city and the establishment of Christianity there. The statistical base of that study needs to be corrected, and other factors need to be considered. Making these changes leads to the conclusions that both population and the presence of Judaism were irrelevant for the spread of early Christianity, and that Hellenization needs to be investigated.
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