deliberately distinguishes between “the Galileans,” that is, the peasants and others who did not dwell in the Hellenistic cities, and those whom they despised, namely the residents of Sepphoris and Tiberias, on whom “the Galileans” turned when the opportunity arose.23 This animosity between the rural and small-town people and the more cosmopolitan city dwellers was probably of long standing, and Josephus’s terminology suggests that the rural people did not see the latter as one with them, in other
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