Edgar J. Goodspeed wrote:
To many the New Testament appears as an island of religious literature in an ancient sea. That it is the beginning of a new continent of literature escapes them. Yet the New Testament was the source of a whole range of literary movements that in a few generations gave Christianity a literature that in sheer bulk and vigor dominated the ancient scene.
~ From the Preface, p.vi, in A History of Early Christian Literature Revised and Enlarged by Robert M. Grant. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1966.
