Abstract
The present study The Social Memory and the Role of Migration in Spreading Early Christianity briefly focuses in the first part on the Social Memory Theory in the New Testament Studies. The roots of this theory go back to work of Maurice Halbwachs, French sociologist, who pointed out that the individual memory develops in interaction with the social network in larger community.
Contemporary scholars follows his idea and try to work with it in the field of the New Testament Studies. Social memory or collective memory played a significant role in remembering and writing early Christian narratives.
The remembered message about Jesus spread in the eastern part of the Roman Empire rapidly and it was dependent on the memory of people, who transmitted it. One of the reason for rapid spread of the Christian message was migration.
The grounds for migration in the Roman Empire, especially the reasons of Jewish people, are explained in this study.