Loading…

Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus: An Investigation into Economic and Social Conditions during the New Testament Period is unavailable, but you can change that!

Where does one look for information on the population of Jerusalem in the time of Jesus? What were the status and condition of slaves both Jewish and Gentile in the first century of the Christian era? Exactly who were the ‘chief priests’ referred to so often in the Gospels and Acts? Answers to these and to hundreds of similar questions related to social and economic conditions during the New...

on feast days. It also explains why the Jews struggled so tenaciously to have the vestments released, a struggle which ended only when the Emperor Claudius ordered their release by a decree in his own hand, on 28 June AD 45; for the campaign over the high priest’s vesture was for Jewry a religious campaign (Ant. 18.90ff.; 20.6ff. cf. also 15.403).4 It is especially significant, however, for the cultic character which the high priest possessed ex officio, that his death had power to atone.5 As soon
Page 149
Buy this book at Logos.com