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The Importance of Documenting Jesus's Life
You have to do a paragraph about someone who isn't known. You can do throwaways about people who are known precisely, precisely. That's a great way of putting it. Yeah. Now, you also, so you draw a great deal on historical texts such as that one and it turns out there is a lot. About Jesus's time?Yeah. The first century was an enormously important era in the Holy Land. It was probably the most politically tumultuous era in the Middle East. But most importantly, it was an era under strict Roman occupation. So what we can do as historians is use that world to define who Jesus would have been.