Politics, Conflict, and Movements in First-Century Palestine - Hardcoverby Richard A. Horsley (Author), K. C. Hanson (Editor) This volume brings together groundbreaking essays that laid the foundations of several of Horsley's later works. The initial aims of these essays were, first, to ferret out evidence from our sources, primarily from the histories of Josephus, evidence for the lives of ordinary people living in Judean and Galilean villages. A second purpose was to explore as precisely as possible the fundamental