Scott Korb

Auteur de Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine

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Scott Korb is coauthor of The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God and an associate editor of The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and graduate degrees from Union Theological Seminary and Columbia afficher plus University. He lives in New York City. afficher moins

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Sexe: male
Nationalité: USA
Études: University of Wisconsin (BA|1997)
Union Theological Seminary (MA|2000)
Columbia University (MA|2002)
Professions: professor, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study

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Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in… par Scott Korb

Many who read the Bible, use the New Testament to define contemporary behavior. However, one can not truly understand the New Testament without first understanding what life in first century Palestine. The author taps on a number of scholarly sources to address money, life in the home, meals, bathing and health, its honor-shame society, religion, war and death. Although this book is scholarly, it is readable and should be a companion piece to any serious study of the New Testament.

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John_Warner | 5 autres critiques | Nov 3, 2020 |

Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in… par Scott Korb

Fairly interesting (and sometimes disturbing) about every day life in Israel around the time of Jesus' life. Though it claims not to be about Jesus, it references the gospel stories (Gnostic and traditional) often to cite examples of archaeological and historical findings.

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judiparadis | 5 autres critiques | Apr 15, 2012 |

Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in… par Scott Korb

This was an interesting journey into first-century Palestine, but it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. For someone who keeps insisting the book isn't about Jesus, the author sure talks about Jesus a lot. His numerous footnotes (on practically every page, sometimes more than one) range between fascinating to annoying, and I think the epilogue, about his own 21st-century trip to Bethlehem, was kind of out-of-place. But I did learn a lot, and I liked Korb's translations of King James Bible verses into plain English.… (plus d'informations)

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meggyweg | 5 autres critiques | Oct 1, 2011 |

Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in… par Scott Korb

Entertaining more than a deep history. Some background on what was going on at that time.

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bgknighton | 5 autres critiques | Jul 26, 2011 |

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