shown how urbanized, in Greco-Roman fashion, some parts of Galilee were in the time of Jesus. As it turns out, Galilee was far more integrated into the larger Roman Empire than at one time imagined. Galilee, Samaria and Judea were no backwater. From these two discoveries some scholars infer the presence of Greco-Roman philosophy in Galilee. The logic goes something like this: where there were Greco-Roman style urban centres, and where Greek was spoken, it follows that there were Greco-Roman philosophers