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A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, Second Division, Vol. I is unavailable, but you can change that!

With this text you gain a window into the world in which Jesus lived. This volume answers fundamental questions on the political environment of the Jews in the first century. Few resources can match this book in terms of precision and quality of information.

The Jewish region just described was, in ancient times as well as in the Graeco-Roman period, surrounded on all sides by heathen districts. Only at Jamnia and Joppa had the Jewish element advanced as far as the sea. Elsewhere, even to the west, it was not the sea, but the Gentile region of the Philistine and Phenician cities, that formed the boundary of the Jewish. These heathen lands were far more deeply penetrated by Hellenism,
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