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Life In Year One: What The World Was Like In First-Century Palestine (2010)

by Scott Korb(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1594488991 (ISBN13: 9781594488993)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: In-depth, insightful and easy to read exploration of life in Palestine during the First Century A.D., or as much of it as can be pieced together. Korb takes us through every facet of life imaginable, from death to taxes, from religion to respect. The book is at turns humorous and horrifying (as when it describes crucifixion)-- an eye-opener.Virtually every page contains lengthy footnotes that either refer to his many sources or provide additional commentary and aside. While some of the footnotes are fun to read, there are too darned many of them and they became grating after awhile. Yet I didn't want to skim over them because real nuggets were to be found among the digressions.I read this book for research into a novel I'm writing and found it very insightful in painti... moreng a picture of First Century Palestine.
review 2: I was pretty excited about this book. While there was good information, it could have been presented much more memorably and concisely. The author spent waaaay too much time trying to convince the reader (and unsuccessfully) that this book is NOT about Jesus. He also has way to many footnotes, many of which are unnecessary. Basically, his writing style was super annoying, and because of all the extra fluff, it was hard to get to and focus on the real information about the 1st century, which is the whole reason I wanted to read the book. The nice part is that I feel like he referenced some good people, so I now have further reading that will hopefully be better. less

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