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

What was it like to live during the time of Jesus? Where did people live? Who did they marry? What was family life like? And how did people survive?



These are just some of the questions that Scott Korb answers in this engaging new book, which explores what everyday life entailed two thousand years ago in first-century Palestine, that tumultuous era when the Roman Empire was at its zenith and a new religion-Christianity-was born.



Culling information from primary sources, scholarly research, an...