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Cultural Worlds of Early Christianity

These diagrams visually convey the relationships between various streams of Early Christianity, both Western (Occidental) and Eastern (Oriental).
Early Christianity

These diagrams help clarify the differences between Occidental (Greco-Roman & Egyptian-Coptic) and Oriental Christianity (Syriac-Persian & Jewish-Aramaic) between 30-130 C.E.