from the Jesus to christ: the first christians, part 1

central to the story of Jesus was that he was born a subject of the _____ empire

roman

Nazareth stands less than 4 miles from the city of ____ , where jesus my have erned his living, and which in not even mentioned in the gospels

seppuras

the problem in trying to reconstruct the life of Jesus os that we dont have _____ that come from the actualy time of jesus himself

sources

our best guess for the birth date of jesus would be the year ___ b.c.e

4

the task of reconstructing the historical Jesus is similar to the task of the _____ in excavating a te;, uncoverung layer by layer of evidence

Archeologist

Jesus was born during the reign of emperor

Caesar Augustus

Judea in the time of jesus birth was ruled by king ____, who was an instrument of the Romans

Herod

historians think that jesus may have been born in the town of ____ in galilee, rather than in bethlehem, as in the gospel narratives.

Nazareth

along the coast, Herod built a new seaport called _____ in honor of the emperor.

cesorea