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

Korb, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594488991 ISBN 13: 9781594488993

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover, 2010

Synopsis

For anyone who's ever pondered what everyday life was like during the time of Jesus comes a lively and illuminating portrait of the nearly unknown world of daily life in first-century Palestine.

What was it like to live during the time of Jesus?

Where did people live?

Who did they marry?

And what was family life like?

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, and his own travels and observations, Korb explores the nitty-gritty of real life back then-from how people fed, housed, and groomed themselves to how they kept themselves healthy. He guides the contemporary reader through the maze of customs and traditions that dictated life under the numerous groups, tribes, and peoples in the eastern Mediterranean that Rome governed two thousand years ago, and he illuminates the intriguing details of marriage, family life, health, and a host of other aspects of first-century life. The result is a book for everyone, from the armchair traveler to the amateur historian. With surprising revelations about politics and medicine, crime and personal hygiene, this book is smart and accessible popular history at its very best.

About this title

About the Author:

Scott Korb is the co-author of The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and graduate degrees from Union Seminary and Columbia University. He has written for Harper's, Gastronomica, the Revealer, and Commonweal. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

From AudioFile:

Arthur Morey delivers this well-done account of the world in which Pontius Pilate, Jesus of Nazareth, Herod, and the Apostles walked, worked, and breathed. Easygoing in pace, Morey's narration is more conversational than dramatic, a style that makes this detailed work accessible and interesting from the beginning. The large number of author's notes adds to the listener's understanding, but they easily could have bogged down the performance of this work. However, Morey skillfully reads the notes and then redirects the listener back to the main text without missing a beat. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1594488991
• ISBN 13: 9781594488993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256