James William Ermatinger

Explore the social and material culture of ancient Palestine uring the era of the biblical New Testament. This lively volume explores the social history ofancient Palestine at the crossroads of the Eastern Mediterranean world, and the emergence of major monotheistic faiths during the time of Christ and the early centuries of the Common era.

Examines the public and private lives of early Christians in the context of ancient Rome from the death of Jesus to Emperor Constantine's legalization of Christianity in 354 C.E.

Here is history at its Magnificent and Panormic best by a Brilliant schollar known as " The first modern historian." "I set out upon Gibbion's Decline and fall of the roman empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style. I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end".