Who Was Jesus Really? - Part 3: What Was Roman Palestine Like in Christ's Time?

Jesus Christ wasn't who almost anyone thinks he was. And his message is more important than almost anyone realizes.
What Christ embodied and taught transcends our neat categories, whether religious, scientific, or strictly historical.
This series puts Jesus in the largest possible perspective, revealing what he said about reality and our place in it.
Encompassing the historical, psychological, and the spiritual, this series frees our view of Jesus from both the dogma of the church and the skepticism of atheists.
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Footnotes:
. Matthew 7:29, Gospel: The Book of Matthew, translated by Thomas Moore, Skylight Paths, 2016., p. 41
. See Zealot by Reza Aslan, or Sakari Häkinnen, 2016, Poverty in the first century Galilee, HTS Theological Studies, vol.72 n.4 Pretoria 2016, dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i4.3398. Available at: www.scielo.org.... script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222016000400046.
. Thucydides 431-411 BC, History of the Peloponnesian War, 5.105, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, Available at www.perseus.tuf... (Accessed Feb. 23, 2021)
. Donald Kagan 1998, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (Free Press) p. 96
. Häkinnen, 2016
. See, for example, Samuel 15:3
. Reza Aslan, 2016, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition, Location 1822.
. Reza Aslan 2016, Location 1865.
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