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The Facts of Life in the Year One

By Jonathan Kirsch

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/the_facts_of_life_in_the_year_one_39100410

No one alive when Jesus of Nazareth was born had the faintest idea that it was the year one. That’s why the title of Scott Korb’s wholly fascinating new book, “Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine," is mostly fanciful. But the fact remains that the first century of the Common Era was crammed with history-making people and events, no less for Jews than for Christians, and Korb’s book gives us a glimpse of ordinary life for the men, women and children who lived in Bible times. The Bible itself will never seem quite the same after learning the facts of life in the Year One.

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