Daily life in the time of Jesus.

Daily life in the time of Jesus.

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Recreation of the land and people of Palestine during the time of Christ.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniel-Rops, Henri, 1901-1965
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York, Hawthorn Books [1962]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Subjects:
Bible. > New Testament > History of contemporary events.
Bible. > New Testament
History of contemporary events.
Manners and customs.
Palestine > Social life and customs.
Middle East > Palestine.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I.A land and its people
  • 1. The geographical context
  • Palestine
  • The beauty and diversity of the Holy Land
  • Hear and cold: wind and rain
  • Trees, flowers and fruit
  • Imples amne animal benedictione
  • 2. The human context
  • The people of the covenant
  • Nomen Numen
  • A nation or a religion?
  • The curious position of the Samaritans
  • The Greek cities
  • So small and so great
  • The great dispersion of the Jews
  • 3. The political context
  • God and Caesar
  • Theocracy
  • Palestine and the Roman domination
  • Herod "the Great"
  • Herod's successors and the procurators
  • The occupiers and the occupied
  • 4. Jerusalem
  • The city of God's rejoicing
  • Its position and its site
  • A thousand years of history
  • "Hole in the Corner" or metropolis?
  • "The nonpareil of beauty, the pride of the whole earth"
  • Life in Jerusalem
  • Part II. Those days and nights that bless the Lord
  • 1. A child of Israel
  • "To our race a son is given"
  • Marked with the seal of God
  • The name
  • The education of the young
  • Coming of age
  • 2. Family, "my own flesh and blood"
  • "My own flesh and blood"
  • Taking a wife
  • Prohibitions and obligation
  • From the engagement to the wedding
  • The father of a family
  • Women in Israel
  • Shortcomings and failures in marriage
  • 3. High and low, rich and poor
  • From tribe to social class
  • Slavery in Israel
  • "At toil repine not"
  • Who were the Am-ha-arez?
  • Beati Possedentes
  • A class apart: the scribes
  • Relations between the classes.
  • 4. Society's imperative commands
  • An obligation unknown to the Jews
  • The heavy burden of taxes
  • Human Justice a dirty rag
  • Judges and courts
  • Civil law
  • Crimes and misdemeanors; punishment and penalties
  • 5. The tablets of heaven and human calculations
  • The ear and the months
  • The week of seven days
  • The day and the hours
  • Weights and measures
  • Money in Palestine
  • 6. Bed and board
  • "Give us this day ..."
  • " ... Our Daily bread"
  • "Vinum Laetificat cor Hominis"
  • Meals
  • "The cloak and the coat"
  • The house
  • 7. "By the sweat of thy brow"
  • The divine institution of labor
  • The "good shepherd's" life
  • The workers in the fields
  • "Cast your nets"
  • The craftsmen
  • 8. From traders to brigands
  • "Neither are we delighted in merchandise"
  • Big business and banking
  • The moral aspect of money and business
  • "Where, then, does wisdom lie? ... not here, cries the abyss ... and the sea echoes, not here"
  • Roads and caravan-tracks
  • Travelers and brigands
  • 9. The spoken and the written word
  • What languages did Jesus speak?
  • Rote-learning, rhythm and antithesis
  • What kind of writing did Jesus read?
  • Writing-materials
  • How news was spread
  • 10. Letters, arts and science
  • A literature without "mere letters"
  • The art of the spoken word
  • "Non Impedias Musicam"
  • A nation without art?
  • Knowledge, God's secret
  • 11. Habits and customs; personal cleanliness; amusements
  • Everyday life
  • Personal cleanliness
  • Social relationships
  • Devils and the stars
  • leisure and amusements
  • Whoredom.
  • 12. When the bird-song dies away
  • Man's condition: suffering and death
  • Hygiene and health
  • Diseases
  • Medicine and medical men
  • Death and the grave
  • "Where, then, death, is thy victory?"
  • Part 3. A people and its God
  • 1. The age of God
  • Israel's religious life
  • The consecration of the day by prayer
  • The consecration of the week by the Sabbath
  • The consecration of the year by the feasts
  • The sabbatical year and the Jubilee
  • 2. The dwellings of God
  • The temple, the "shrine of the glory of God"
  • The temple as Christ knew it
  • The temple: its services and its symbolism
  • The synagogue: in no way a temple
  • The services at the synagogue
  • 3. The men of God
  • The priests and Levites in the service of the temple
  • The doctors in the service of the Law
  • The Pharisees and the Sadducees
  • The Nazarites' vows and retreats in the desert
  • The monks of the Dead Sea
  • 4. The faith of Israel and the coming of the messiah
  • The first commandment of all
  • Was God withdrawing himself from man?
  • "And the second, its like"
  • Chosen people of universalism?
  • Was the letter to kill the Spirit?
  • The Messiah. Who and when?
  • Finale: Jesus among his people and in his time
  • 1. Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew among Jews
  • 2. "Christ has superseded the Law"
  • 3. The Jewish people and Jesus.

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