A review by blevins
Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine by Scott Korb

3.0

Shortish book by Scott Korb that looks into various elements of what it might have been like to live in Palestine in the time of Jesus. Some essays are obviously more interesting than others, but the overall message I took from the book: I would NOT want to have lived in this era! Filthy, disease ridden, short life spans, war, famine, no indoor plumbing, no air conditioning! This wasn't the easiest time to live your life to say the least. Korb likes to write footnotes. There is rarely a page without footnotes, some of which are quite long, and not every one of them would clarify what subject that was being discussed. Too many of them were Korb on some kind of tangent, which made me dread having to take my attention away from the crux of the story to the footnote. Okay.