Stone And Dung, Oil And Spit by Steve Magness
Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus
An engaging, archaeology-based portrait of Jewish daily life in the late Second Temple period, it reconstructs how ordinary people ate, worked, worshiped, bathed, and buried their dead, showing how purity laws shaped everything from stone vessels and ritual baths to toilet design and garbage disposal. Drawing on excavations and contemporary texts, it illuminates homes, clothing, coins, markets, synagogues, and burial caves, and explains practices such as anointing with oil and the medicinal or symbolic use of spittle, providing vivid context for Gospel scenes and the broader social, economic, and religious world of first-century Judea.
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- 2011
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- American
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- English
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