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In his latest book, Sean Freyne draws on his detailed knowledge of Galilean society in the Roman period, based on both literary and archaeological sources, to give a fresh and provocative reading of the Jesus-story within its Galilean setting. Jesus, a Jewish Galilean focuses on the religious as well as the social and political environment and examines the ways in which the Jewish religious...

Outlining the Approach of the Present Study One sometimes gets the impression from popular articles and TV programmes that archaeology can unlock the secrets of Galilee, and that ‘the torn, but still legible landscape’ can act as a fifth gospel, to borrow Ernest Renan’s colourful expression. This, however, is far from the full truth, even though one should not underplay its significance, when the results are judiciously evaluated and brought into dialogue with the literary accounts. Since the evidence

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