Excerpt from The North African Church There is good reason to suppose that the Jews of the dispersion were settled in considerable numbers in Carthage and the neighbourhood.2 The great commercial importance of the City, its ancient relations with Phoenicia, the large number Of Jews who frequented other Mediterranean sea ports, the fact that Jews are to be found in the City of Tunis at this day, altogether forms a body of circumstantial evidence, which appears conclusive. Jews were certainly to be found as near as Tripolis in large numbers; and as the city of Carthage increased rapidly in population during the Apostolic age, it is likely that the Christian faith was made known in the province of Africa before the end of the first century, brought thither by Jews from Cyrene. Or from Rome, or direct from Judaea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.