From the Book - First edition.
Prelude: a very Roman murder
Part I: the New Testament and its critics
What was the Roman Empire?
A survey of the Roman world
The Roman world grows rich
Part III: Tiberius and the New Roman Empire
Succession, chaos returns
Part IV: Herod and the birth of Jesus
Part V: the Galilee Jesus knew
Judea and Galilee under Herod's rule
Israel: Herod's death and Jesus as a child
Economic growth and Galilee
Part IV: Tiberius rules the empire
Tiberius versus Germanicus
33 Ad's other great catastrophe
Reconstructing Jesus's last week
Pontius Pilate: what do we know?
