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

3.0

This COULD have been pretty interesting, but the author's smug tone, silly footnotes, and all-around trying-to-be-too-clever did grate after a bit. Couldn't tell the author's exact position on who Jesus really was--there were a few kind of condescending comments, but by and large, the author kept insisting the book was NOT about Jesus. Kind of odd, really, since why else would anyone write or read a book about the first century A.D.? Without that one thing, why not the third century BC or the second AD? So that was sort of odd, too.