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