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In the book, Life in Year One, Scott Korb painted a picture of life in Ancient Palestine. The thought of how people performed everyday tasks and how they lived was open to speculation and imagination for many. Korb helped readers to peer into the world of the Palestinian inhabitants. The food habits, religious practices (meaning of uncleanness), the extreme justice system, the woman’s place in society in the first century Palestinian society are some of the things considered.
According to Korb, most of the Palestine’s inhabitants practiced Christianity in the first century. Christianity eventually became the universal religion. It was not tied to a locality or a specific ethnicity like Judaism. Adherents of Christianity had certain dietary restrictions and important rituals that they observed. The food law prohibited the eating of pigs; birds like vultures, sea gulls, ravens, and hawks; animals that “swarm on the ground,” like rodents, lizards, and most insects. “According to archaeological findings, “bone profiles” revealed what animal that any given bone belongs to. No pig bones were found.” The rituals observed by the people were daily prayers, regular visits to the temple and common meals. “Sabbath and festival services would have focused on a reading of the Torah and a sermon.” Korb’s states, that the average family …show more content…

In general, boys were viewed as more valuable than girls were. Her responsibility was to take care of domestic household chores. Women and girls who threatened the financial stability of the home by not getting married young enough might be forced into prostitution . Men had more freedom to get out of marriages than women did. They were restricted from bathing in the public baths with men. The fathers arranged their marriage. So, women seem to have had little or no voice in her future. Women seemed to be second-class citizens during the first

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