Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine (Audiobook)

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Many who read the Bible, use the New Testament to define contemporary behavior. However, one can not truly understand the New Testament without first understanding what life in first century Palestine. The author taps on a number of scholarly sources to address money, life in the home, meals, bat...

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Fairly interesting (and sometimes disturbing) about every day life in Israel around the time of Jesus' life. Though it claims not to be about Jesus, it references the gospel stories (Gnostic and traditional) often to cite examples of archaeological and historical findings.

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Entertaining more than a deep history. Some background on what was going on at that time.

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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) I first became a fan of Scott Korb because of his remarkable 2008 book The Faith Between Us, co-authore...