Special attention is given to documentary evidence, above all to inscriptions. In one case, the discussion of the epigraphical evidence for the Italian cohort mentioned in Acts 10:1 turns out to be so detailed and lengthy that the author assigned a special excursus to it (p. 123-141).
Because the target audience of this book is not only students of history, philology and theology, but a wider readership, for their benefit all Greek, Latin and Hebrew quotations have been translated into Russian.
The author of the book owes an enormous debt of gratitude to the staff of the library of Tyndale House (Cambridge, UK) on which friendly premises most of the research for the book was done. The book is gratefully dedicated to all author’s friends in Britain.