EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT JESUS’ ENVIRONMENT
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JESUS’ life, teachings, healings, miracles, and ultimate sacrifice has been discussed, scrutinized, debated, argued over, and sermonized. Yet, this is not the whole story. Jesus lived in this world, putting up with snow, summer heat while enjoying its forests, wadies, rivers, and lakes. He ate the land’s food, dressed in Hebrewite clothes, walked its paths and roadways through hamlets, villages, towns, and cities. In His travels, Jesus listened to birds, observed migrating flocks, watched wildlife, smelled flowers, and ate tree’s ripened fruits. Jesus attended synagogue services, a wedding, funeral, and watched tradesmen at their crafts. He also spoke with the rich, poor, sickly, educated, even debated rulers, sect members, and those of the priestly class. Each event had a story, the one untold behind the scenes.
These pieces of information are what this booklet is about. Become knowledgeable about the environment Jesus lived in and discover the heartaches and joys it brought into His life.
HEM = Matthew 23.5 speaks to how the Pharisees enlarged the borders of the long robes to be more conspicuous when praying on street corners. Interestingly, legal contracts written on clay tablets were ‘signed’ by pressing the corner of one’s hem into the clay.
FIRST CENTURY RECIPES = Dishes of fish, vegetables, fruits, bread, cheeses, sauces, broths, relishes, dips, salads, meats (for festivals and special occasions), soups, fruit desserts, and cake desserts were family recipes passed down from one generation to the next.
FREE WILL = known as the Doctrine of Noninterference. SAGA 1.
NEWLYWEDS GOING INTO BATTLE = The Law was absolute: No newlywed sees a battle, not until a year of marriage has passed. This one-year waiting period was intended to ensure a man had an offspring to carry on his name and receive his inheritance in the event of his death. SAGA 1.
IMPALE = In 701 BCE, during the siege of Lachish, the Assyrians impaled the defeated Judaean rebels. As a tool used to intimidate the conquered people, foreign ambassadors, terrorists, and enemies eyeing their territories, the Assyrians painted impaling death scenes on buildings. In 539 BCE, the Persians conquered the region of Palestine. They continued the use of impalement as a torturous death. The quick death is a pike going into the heart. The slow death is where the pike travels through the vital organs. SAGA 2.
CAMEL’S DUNG = Damascus steel became hardened by camel dung through heated ammonia, forming a thin layer of nitrogen-bearing surface on the steel. This process created weapons that were sharper than weapons made from iron. SAGA 2.
DEATH PENALTY = According to Deuteronomy 22.20-21, the act of fornication calls for the death penalty, but no pregnant woman ever received the death penalty. Her sentence would be carried out after she gave birth. Then, both underwent execution. SAGA 3, Ch 60.
WEDDING AT CANA = where water turns into wine becomes the first of Jesus’ signs. The conversations of Jesus transpire in John 2.1-11, NRSV. SAGA 3.
KISLEV = Kislev the 15th. Antiochus erected Zeus, a pagan idol whose face looked amazingly like Antiochus, upon the holy altar of the Jerusalem Temple. When hearing this, the ‘am ha-aretz (common people) vomited right in the streets, so acute was their distress, but worse was yet to come. SAGA 4
REVIEW
I just finished reading your information booklet, “Everything you ever wanted to know about Jesus’ ENVIRONMENT,” based upon your “Tree of Knowledge” narrative-nonfiction 4-Volume Saga, and I must say, it is truly a remarkable and meticulously researched work. The depth of historical information you’ve gathered on the First-Century CE Palestinian environment is incredibly comprehensive, covering everything from daily life, calendar, clothes, coins, creatures, and customs to faith elements, family life, and even specific plants and foods. It’s evident that years of dedication went into this research, and it truly offers a wealth of information. Your approach to presenting these researched facts through a narrative-nonfiction saga is brilliant and makes the complex history engaging and accessible for researchers, historians, readers, teachers, students of the Holy Bible, and writers alike. The way you weave in details about the “Tree of Knowledge” series, with Sagas like “A STORY OF TERRORISM” and “JESUS THE WARRIOR MESSIAH,” really brings the period to life. The inclusion of specific topics such as the historical context of Jesus’s environment, the detailed descriptions of various aspects of daily life, and the careful citations of your research make this an invaluable resource. It’s clear that this booklet is designed to bring readers into a deeper relationship with our Lord by understanding the challenges and wisdom of Jesus’s time. Thank you for offering such a rich and informative piece of historical work. Your passion for the subject shines through, and I believe this booklet will be a treasured guide for anyone seeking to understand this pivotal period more deeply. All the best,
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