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Hanson and Oakman’s award-winning and illuminating Palestine in the Time of Jesus has become a widely used and cited introduction to the social context of the early Jesus movement. Along with an overview of the ancient Mediterranean worldview, it explores major domains and institutions of Roman Palestine: kinship, politics, economy, and religion.

of the rest of the world (throughout history!) is our “separation of church and state”; this would have been incomprehensible to people of any religious *group in the ancient Mediterranean. The U.S. Constitution guarantees that Congress shall not institute a state religion, support any religion with taxes, or prohibit the practice of religion. Because social institutions are interactive, this right (and the laws, regulations, and public policies that enact it) has been a matter of bitter contention
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