Life in Year One
Author: Korb, Scott
ISBN: 9781594485039
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Mar 2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
b>What was it like to live in the time of Jesus? /b> br>br> What did people eat? Whom did they marry? How did they keep themselves clean? What did their cities and towns look like? What did they believe? br>br> The answers, it turns out, are surprising. This simple question is not so simple after all. With a historian's insight and a reporter's curiosity, Scott Korb gives us a backstage pass to the unexpected and sometimes down-and-dirty truth about what everyday life was like in first-century Palestine, that tumultuous era when the Roman Empire was at its zenith and a new religion-Christianity-was born.BR>BR>b>What was it like to live in the time of Jesus? /b> br>br> What did people eat? Whom did they marry? How did they keep themselves clean? What did their cities and towns look like? What did they believe? br>br> The answers, it turns out, are surprising. This simple question is not so simple after all. With a historian's insight and a reporter's curiosity, Scott Korb gives us a backstage pass to the unexpected and sometimes down-and-dirty truth about what everyday life was like in first-century Palestine, that tumultuous era when the Roman Empire was at its zenith and a new religion-Christianity-was born.
ISBN: 9781594485039
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Mar 2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
b>What was it like to live in the time of Jesus? /b> br>br> What did people eat? Whom did they marry? How did they keep themselves clean? What did their cities and towns look like? What did they believe? br>br> The answers, it turns out, are surprising. This simple question is not so simple after all. With a historian's insight and a reporter's curiosity, Scott Korb gives us a backstage pass to the unexpected and sometimes down-and-dirty truth about what everyday life was like in first-century Palestine, that tumultuous era when the Roman Empire was at its zenith and a new religion-Christianity-was born.BR>BR>b>What was it like to live in the time of Jesus? /b> br>br> What did people eat? Whom did they marry? How did they keep themselves clean? What did their cities and towns look like? What did they believe? br>br> The answers, it turns out, are surprising. This simple question is not so simple after all. With a historian's insight and a reporter's curiosity, Scott Korb gives us a backstage pass to the unexpected and sometimes down-and-dirty truth about what everyday life was like in first-century Palestine, that tumultuous era when the Roman Empire was at its zenith and a new religion-Christianity-was born.
