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In Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit Jodi Magness unearths “footprints” buried in both archaeological and literary evidence to shed new light on Jewish daily life in Palestine from the mid-first century B.C.E. to 70 C.E.—the time and place of Jesus’ life and ministry. Magness analyzes recent archaeological discoveries from such sites as Qumran and Masada together with a host of period texts,...

despite his well-known biases and misrepresentations.9 Much of our information on the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes comes from War 2.119–65; Ant. 13.171–73; 293–98; and 18.12–20. Some of Josephus’s observations seem to be echoed in the New Testament, for example, concerning resurrection: “The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit; but the Pharisees acknowledge all three” (Acts 23:8). A saying attributed to Rabbi Akiba is usually understood in light of Josephus’s description
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