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A Historical Sketch Of Galilee, Andrew C. Skinner
A Historical Sketch Of Galilee, Andrew C. Skinner
BYU Studies Quarterly
By the first century A.D., much of Palestine, the area known to the Israelites as the "land of promise," was divided under the Romans into five areas of provincial or semiprovincial status: Galilee, Idumea, Judea, Perea, and Samaria. Only Judea was overwhelmingly Jewish, while the other provinces, although mostly Jewish, also supported mixed populations of Jews, Greeks, and Syrians. This ethnic background and many historical factors become significant when one seeks to understand the elements that contributed to Jewish rebellion and to Galilee as a seedbed of revolt, including the Jewish War against Rome.
And They Cast Lots: Divination, Democracy, And Josephus, Eric D. Huntsman
And They Cast Lots: Divination, Democracy, And Josephus, Eric D. Huntsman
BYU Studies Quarterly
After the men had chosen by lot ten of their number who would be their butchers, and when they had laid down beside and thrown their arms around their wives and children who lay waiting, they offered themselves up for the slaughter. —Josephus, Jewish War 7.395 (author's translation)