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The most comprehensive, up-to-date, accurate information on life in Bible times available in one volume for the general reader. Accurate: Takes each of 20 historical epochs seriously—avoids a “one size fits all” approach to ancient cultures. Comprehensive: Considers ten distinct topics such as food, clothing, as well as religion, within each period. Visually Appealing: Thoroughly illustrated...

expected good prices for their wares. Normally the tunic was held in at the waist by a girdle or belt of folded wool cloth, in which men kept their money and other valuables and in which soldiers carried their swords. When engaged in manual labor on a hot day, men normally wore only a kilt or a loincloth. Usually neither men nor women wore underwear and slept in the same clothes they wore during the day. Pajamas are unknown. In this picture, men were bearded (as Semites normally were) and had their