Document Analysis-SC3: Christianity Through the introduction of “Christianity”, the source of the excerpt of the New Testament is revealed, allowing one to gain insightful background information to analysis the method in which Christianity was spread and the characteristics of the religion that allowed it to do so. In particular, the writers and source of this excerpt were Saul, a Jew who hailed from Tarsus in Asia Minor and Matthew, a second-generation Christian. Saul, who was later know as Paul after a conversion to Christianity, reconstructed Jesus’s messages into religious ideology and enlightened different communities of converts with letters explaining the faith, in a time of religious commotion. Not unlike Saul, Matthew condensed Jesus’s
